The Canterbury Tales Wiki

This wiki is intended as a complete introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. It is primarily focused on giving complete summaries of each tale in Modern English and function as an aid to understanding the original Middle English collection of tales that is The Canterbury Tales.

The page entitled "The Cook" is under construction (last updated on the 11th of May 2021).

How this wiki is organized
The Canterbury Tales is very character-driven, despite it being broken up into individual tales. Technically, each tale is told not by Chaucer, but by a character, and the tales are primarily used to characterize their tellers. They reflect the teller's role in the framing story, their values, and their idea of a good story. There is even so much filler between tales, in the form of prologues and epilogues, that these make up an entire story by themselves with its own characters, plot, and character development.

Therefore, this wiki has been organized according to characters rather than tales. Most tales are named after its character-narrator anyway (e.g. "The Knight's Tale", "The Wife of Bath's Tale"). Each page covers all of the character's involvement in The Canterbury Tales, which may not be limited to just their tale and prologue. Often the pilgrims squabble in other character's prologues, e.g. in "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" where the summoner and friar interrupt the wife of Bath in order to argue amongst themselves.

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