The Canterbury Tales are stories told by a group of medieval pilgrims from London Medieval England, whom can be best described as many different characters such as a monk and a pardoner, travelling alongside a sailor, miller, carpenter, and a knight, among others. When the group stops for the night, the host of the pilgrimage proposes that they all tell stories to each other along the way. The pilgrims agree to tell four stories each, two on the way to Canterbury ( to where they are going to Canterbury to pay their respects to the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral).
As the Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, some tales borrowed portions of previous stories from earlier stories, as well as from the general state of the literary world. The Plowman comes to scene when The Canterbury Tales introduces a Plowman who never receives a tale. This omission seems to have sparked the creativity of others from an early date.
Canterbury tale. Author: Geoffrey ChaucerI guess you can now figure "what is the plowman's tale in Canterbury tale?"
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