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Chaucer's The Canterbury Stories is one of the very most influential pieces of writing in the British isles literary canon. It helped to determine English, somewhat than Latin or Norman People from france, as an acceptable language for books. It was also one of the earliest pieces of work to own storyline linking - what possessed previously been just collected writings that your author regarded interesting. Following the style of such early masterpieces as Boccacio's Decameron, Chaucer collected several styles and types of stories together - politics treatises, bawdy pub stories, courtly romances and moral tales - getting started with them mutually under the conceit of a group of pilgrims destined for Canterbury, swapping tales, somewhat competitively, within an inn in Southwark, South London. The prologue to the tales is therefore an important piece of literature in its right. Before The Canterbury Stories and its own like, it didn't really matter in what order you browse the works collected in a single volume; the first item could equally well be read last. The prologue not only introduces all the people you are about to meet; it also sets the scene for you, painting an image of what is becoming one of the very most famous of literary Aprils and linking the forthcoming stories with some jousting type endeavors by the tellers to top each other and exact revenge for prior insults.
