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Geoffrey Chaucer.   late-fourteenth-century English poet  Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s Geoffrey Chaucer.

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1 Geoffrey Chaucer

2   late-fourteenth-century English poet  Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s Geoffrey Chaucer

3   Written in Middle English at the end of the 1300s  Chaucer wrote in the vernacular, the English that was spoken in and around London in his day. The Canterbury Tales

4   Tabard Inn  Contest for a free meal The Situation

5  The Characters  Knight  Squire  Yeoman  Nun  Monk  Merchant  Friar  Cleric  Serjeant at the Law  Franklin  5 Tradesmen  Cook  Skipper  Doctor  Wife of Bath  Parson  Plowman  Miller  Manciple  Reeve  Summoner  Pardoner  The Tabard  Host

6  Character Organizational Charts (O.C.s)

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