Rosalind Shanks

The Summoner’s Tale • The Friar’s Tale • The Manciple’s Tale • The Physician’s Tale • The Seaman’s Tale • The Lawyer’s Tale • The Prioress's Tale

Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a collection of narratives written between 1387 and 1400, tells of a group of thirty people from all layers of society who pass the time along their pilgrimage to Canterbury by telling stories to one another, their interaction