Why The Canterbury Tales Have Spoken English

The Canterbury Tales were written by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably in the late 1380s and early 1390s. Set in the 1390s near London, The Canterbury Tales are about a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury who, along the way, end up in a sort of storytelling competition. Each pilgrim tells two tales on the way there to Canterbury and two on the way back, the judge being a character dubbed, The Host. The pilgrims have many conflicts with each other involving stories that are taken personally and maybe because of the Host, who seems to settle most of the pilgrims’ differences with peace but occasionally makes things much worse. The Canterbury Tales were written in the 14th century, which is why the language is as it is, that’s just how people spoke and wrote English back then, but even so I believe it is also a very

Is it because there is no reason, is it that it isn’t hard to understand old English so we leave it as is? Reading old books is hard because it is not written in quite the same language as ours even if it is English, because English has changed over the years in many ways. Even so we leave the book the same, now many reasons could be given as to why this is but the one I really want to be considered is that it just wouldn’t make sense. The Canterbury Tales are set in the 1390s, involving monks, priests, millers, and other characters that are hard, at least for me, to imagine speaking 21st century English. The Canterbury Tales was popular after it was first published because it was written in English instead of Latin, something that broke tradition among authors in that time, and allowed for many more people to be able to read it, because many more people could read English and not Latin. The book is probably still popular because it is an old book that allows us to read and interesting story, in this case many stories within a story, from a time that we don’t know, and what we don’t know fascinates us, and I believe the language