A brief introduction to one of The Canterbury Tales

1. THE PARDONER’S
TALE

2. GEOFFREY CHAUCER
English poet (1342-circa
1400)
Known as the Father o
English Literature
Author, philosopher,
alchemist, and astronomer

3. Paul Bettany as Geoffrey
Chaucer in A Knight’s
Tale, a movie that is a
modern interpretation of
one of The Canterbury
Tales

4. LITERARY WORKS
◦ The book of the Duchess
(elegy)
◦ The House of Fame
◦ The Canterbury Tales

5. The Canterbury Tales
A work of fiction
 A collection of stories told
by a group of pilgrims
travelling to Carnterbury.

6. The Canterbury Tales
These tales contributed
to shaping English
Literature and
establishing clear
standards regarding the
use of written English.

7. ◦The relevance of this work consists on
being wirtten in English, rather tan in
Latin or French.
◦This makes it the first collection of tales
written in vernacular English

8. ◦Chaucer used his broad knowledge of people and places to
create the variety of realistic characters in his work.

9. ◦The plot structure of the Cantebury Tales
is known as a “frame story”.
◦The frame is the group of pilgrims.
◦Each one tells a story, which can
be comic or philosophic.

10. ◦The pardoner’s Tale is a story with a
moral, meant to guide people away from
sin.