Substance:The book The Canterbury Tales describes a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury, the place where Thomas à Becket (a saint) was killed in a great church, so the pilgrims travel TO Canterbury to visit just this church.
All these pilgrims meet at a place called the Tabard Inn in London. The owner of the inn has always been very happy and tells them, during the meal, many funny stories and all the pilgrims laugh. This fat happy man gives a suggestion for all of them to stay happy – to tell stories (each person two stories) on the way. He promises: „We’ll give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story.“ All the pilgrims agrEe with this suggestion and are going to let just him decide which story is the best one.
The next morning, they all get up very early and start on their journey. After a time, they stop and give their horses water. This moment, the fat man (the inn owner) says: „Now, who’s going to tell the first story? Sir Knight, will you?“ So the knight starts to tell the first story on thier journey. By the way, the knight goes to Canterbury to thank God because he is safe after a dangerous war. The knight’s tale is about Palamon and Arcite.  |