Work: from the Canterbury Tales
::Background::
- Tabard Inn, located on the Southern end of the London Bridge where many pilgrims would stop by after their trip to the south of England to visit the shrine of Thomas â Becket in Canterbury.
- In Chaucer's "Prologue" to the tales, we are told how 29 pilgrims and the narrator meet at the Tabard Inn and how they agree to be fellow travelers.
- THE INNKEEPER IS HARRY BAILEY
- Of the potential 120 tales, 24 were written, and even some are incomplete.
- The tales and their creators allow Chaucer to paint the moving life of 14th century English society in all its breadth and variety.
- The tales also show a great variety of types ranging from the chivalric romance to the sermon.
- The Talbot Inn has been built on the original site of the Tabard Inn.