What title did Geoffrey Chaucer give to his 14th-century Middle English collection of stories told by pilgrims traveling on horseback from Southwark to the shrine of Thomas Becket?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C. The Canterbury Tales

  1. Step 1: Written between 1387 and 1400, this masterpiece elevated Middle English to a respected literary vernacular alongside Latin and French.
  2. Step 2: Geoffrey Chaucer framed 'The Canterbury Tales' around a storytelling competition among a diverse cross-section of medieval society (the Knight, Miller, Wife of Bath, Pardoner) traveling from the Tabard Inn to Canterbury Cathedral.
Answer
The Canterbury Tales
Why not the others: 'Piers Plowman' Piers Plowman is an allegorical Middle English alliterative dream vision poem written by William Langland; 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century chivalric romance in alliterative verse by the anonymous Pearl Poet; 'Confessio Amantis' Confessio Amantis is a 33,000-line Middle English poem on courtly love composed by John Gower.

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