Chaucer- The Prologue
“Chaucer’s group of pilgrims constitute a picture of his times”. Discuss. Or If you were writing a social history of England in the fourteenth century, what help would you get from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales? Or “Chaucer gives us a microcosm of England society in the Prologue itself”. Elucidate this statement. Or “Chaucer showed the world as it did exist-the England of his days-a world of reality, a world various and beautiful, but hitherto kept away from literature”. Discuss. Or “A cross-section of English life in the fourteenth century”. Is this an adequate summing up of the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales?
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