Question

Why was The Canterbury Tales such an important work? who wrote it?

Answer 1

Why Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales? (Selectable sources for further study on The Canterbury Tales and Geoffrey Chaucer.) About The Canterbury Tales: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories in a frame story, between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England).