Show Plot Canterbury Tales

Authors: Martin Stakie, Nevill Coghill, Richard Hill, John Hawkins

Time Period: 1387-1400, late 14th Century

Setting: Tabard Inn in Southwark, London

Adapted From: Based on five tales from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

Summary: Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a late-14th-century frame narrative. It follows a group of 30 diverse pilgrims traveling from London to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. To pass the time, they engage in a lively storytelling contest proposed by their innkeeper, with a free dinner as the prize.