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The 25 pages that link to The Canterbury Tales, each with the reason it gives.

• Ensemble CastBroader topic: Its frame makes a company of travelers, not one protagonist, the organizing center.

• Frame storyBroader topic: The pilgrimage supplies a social frame for a varied set of individual tales.

• Historical criticismBroader topic: Its speakers and social tensions invite analysis against late medieval institutions and estates.

• Geoffrey ChaucerBroader topic: This unfinished story collection is Chaucer’s best-known work.

• Middle EnglishBroader topic: Its varied voices and London-area language make it a central Middle English literary work.

• English literatureBroader topic: Its varied voices and genres display the range of late medieval English writing.

• Vernacular literatureBroader topic: Its Middle English verse gives literary form to a language spoken across late medieval England.

• William CaxtonBroader topic: Caxton printed editions that helped circulate Chaucer’s work.

• NarratorBroader topic: Its framing narrator introduces a company whose members tell stories in turn.

• Heroic coupletBroader topic: Several tales use rhyming pentameter couplets for narrative verse.

• Framing deviceBroader topic: The pilgrimage supplies a social frame for the pilgrims’ varied tales.

• Renaissance literatureBroader topic: Its varied voices and English verse shaped later vernacular storytelling.

• Short story cycleBroader topic: Its shared storytelling situation links distinct narratives within one larger work.

• Medieval literatureBroader topic: Its varied narrators and genres showcase late medieval English storytelling.