Both Canterbury Tales & Decameron

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Both Canterbury Tales & Decameron Use literary ________ of travelers telling stories Showcase literature’s power to ________ listeners Exhibit themes of ____________, instead of the absolutism seen with Divine Comedy Feature a range of _________ as characters Written in _________, rather than the “official” languages of Church or state

The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer, as author & narrator, with 28 other “pilgrims” England 1386-1400 In “Middle English” Genre = Poetry, in rhyming couplets Prologue claims 112 tales will be told, but only 24 exist

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