Chapter 51 Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales written by Chaucer, a great English poet in the 14th century, has been published very well recently. The Chinese translation is published.Thinking of such remote Western classical literary works, in the dizzying newly published It also occupies a place in the object, and the situation really fascinates me. Chaucer was a contemporary of Boccaccio's author, The Canterbury Tales Also a work of the type, but not in prose but in verse (only There are two exceptions).Chaucer knew Buccaccio and had also been to Italy, and he claimed to be

Therefore, "The Canterbury Tales" adopted the most popular "Ten Stories" at that time. The "Daily Talk" type of storytelling form is not different. Chaucer imagines a group of pilgrims making a pilgrimage to St Thomas' Church in Canterbury.them Rest in a hotel and agree that everyone will go together.Including the poet himself, there are Thirty-one people, both male and female.Their streams are very complex, including sailors, cooks, Gentlemen, proprietresses, farmers, priests, and peddlers selling religious talismans, etc., almost Represents all classes of middle and lower society in medieval England.The group of pilgrims gathered at a house called Taba

In the hotel, everyone chatted after dinner. The owner of the hotel suggested that in order to relieve the loneliness of the journey, everyone Each person tells two stories on the way to incense and on the way home.The person who speaks the best, after offering incense Then everyone invited him to dinner. In this way, a total of thirty-one people, each telling four stories back and forth, according to Chaucer's original writing As planned, there should be a total of one hundred and twenty-four stories.But the "Canterbury" we read today Ray's Tales", there are only twenty-four stories, this is because Chaucer's work was written in his later years

Written, deliberately worked on, but died in 1400 before finishing it. According to legend, the poet wrote this work, in order to experience the truth of life of all walks of life, he once anonymized Changed my surname to join the group of pilgrims, and went to Canterbury for a sightseeing trip.Therefore, in this collection of stories, Although some stories were popular legends among the people at that time, or were collected from other ancient story collections, Yes, but he can match each story with the identity of the storyteller, especially the The personalities of the guests and their professional backgrounds are the most vivid and profound.Therefore, although this is a

Works produced in the Middle Ages, and Sisser uses ancient English, but this does not prevent It is still a literary work that many people love to read. Straightforward, laughable and tearful, humane and not shy away from obscenity is what this story is about The reason why the collection can spread immortality and is loved by people.Someone even compared Chaucer to Rabelais in England, This comparison can be said to be very appropriate.For even such a collection of stories in verse, due to some false The face of the good man was portrayed so realistically that the Vatican was not happy to see it.

It is included in the "Catalogue of Prohibited Books" and believers are not allowed to read it.