ENGL 2121
British Literature I
Additional Supplemental Material for
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
This link takes you to Harvard University's page on Chaucer. It has links to a variety of interesting subjects that might help you to better understand the poem and the times in which it was written.
The Geoffrey Chaucer Website Homepage
Here's the associated link to The Canterbury Tales.
(clicking on a section at the left will bring up additional information
and explanations of the various tales as well as online versions of the tales)
This site was created some years ago by a leading scholar on Chaucer for her own students. Sadly, she passed away fairly recently. However, the site still has excellent material and analysis for each tale as well as contexts for Chaucer and his times.
Jane Zatta's Chaucer Web Site Index
Here is the SparkNotes link for this poem.
SparkNotes: The Canterbury Tales
Here is the ClassicNote: Grade Saver page with summaries of each of the tales as well as a brief analysis and explanation of each tale.