Canterbury Tales-The Knight

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Canterbury Tales-The Knight

  The Canterbury Tales - The Knight
     Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of
twenty-four stories ostensibly told by various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to
Canterbury Cathedral from London, England. Prior to the actual tales, however, Chaucer offers
the reader a glimpse of fourteenth century life by way of what he refers to as a General Prologue.
In this prologue, Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved in this imaginary
journey and who will tell the tales. Among the characters included in this introductory section is
a knight. Chaucer initially refers to the knight as "a most distinguished man" (l. 43) and, indeed,
his sketch of the knight is highly complimentary.
     The knight, Chaucer tells us, "possessed/Fine horses, but he was not gaily dressed" (ll.
69-70). Indeed, the knight is dressed in a common shirt which is stained "where his armor had
left mark" (l. ...

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