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would you say "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales" or "Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales"?
I mean the work by Geoffrey Chaucer. I know the title of the book is The Canterbury Tales but would you say like that or without the "The"? This is for my personal statement so I want to do it properly and save characters, and it's important so don't guess please.
5 Answers
- Anonymous9 years agoFavorite Answer
It's either way, so, since this is your personal statement, feel free to say it the way that feels right for you.
- LomaxLv 79 years ago
My copy is titled The Canterbury Tales, and as far as I know, this is the accepted usage.
Whether it is the title Chaucer himself used (or even if he used any title at all) is not clear. Remember that this is an unfinished collection of tales, several of which Chaucer had written before the idea of the Tales came to him. Nor is it known whether the various fragments which were collected after Chaucer's death are in anything like the order he intended for them.
- 9 years ago
I always put 'The Canterbury Tales' by Geoffrey Chaucer as it sounds more formal :)
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- Anonymous5 years ago
well the whole tale is about chaucers critique about the ppl. especially the clergy, he talked about how one of the characters (i forgot who) used to trick ppl into giving him money, and talks about how the priest or whatever was wearing all this fine jewelry when the clergy is supose to be modest. And how the priest likes to hunt for sport. (aka KILLING for fun)
