Voth's 'The Canterbury Tales'

Voth’s “The Canterbury Tales” explains Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales written in 1386–1400 C.E. The idea of a story holds together all the stories within it is the rule that 10 people on a journey of 10 days each tell one story per day. For instance, his 30 pilgrims who meet at the Tabard Inn in London plan to tell two stories each on the way to Canterbury and two stories on the way back, which would be a total of 120 stories had the poem been completed as planned. Chaucer characterizes his pilgrims in his “General Prologue” and then has each tell a tale that fits the character. Chaucer also provides links between the tales, featuring interaction among the pilgrims and accounting for the way in which one story leads to the next. In addition,