View The Franklin Canterbury Tales Summary Images. Geoffery chaucer's classic anthology of stories is perhaps the most famous piece of middle. The franklin says that his tale is a familiar breton lay, a folk ballad of ancient brittany.
The canterbury tales begins with the general prologue, a detailed introduction and description of each of the pilgrims journeying to canterbury to catch sight of the shrine to sir thomas.
The canterbury tales is the last of geoffrey chaucer's works, and he only finished 24 of an initially planned 100 tales. Geoffery chaucer's classic anthology of stories is perhaps the most famous piece of middle english literature. He was black, but he wasn't looked at differently. The canterbury tales consists of the stories related by the 29 pilgrims on their way to saint thomas becket's shrine in canterbury.
