“The Canterbury Tales” is a story well placed in its very setting and story-telling environment. It is, in itself, an actual microcosm of the medieval world of its day. It fits well within the uncharted and creative medieval times in which it was written, adding harmony.
Shakespeare the playwright compares to Shakespeare the poet in his witty sense of realistic situational writing. As playwright and poet, both of his traits involve works of writing, which place certain characters in unusual settings, at the most unusual of times.allowing for the most extraordinary of outcomes! In Shakespeare’s plays, his poems are given a greater opportunity to come alive.which is also worth noting. This is done through characters and actors, props, sound, music, stages, as well as the general audience. Plays are read and staged.
Shakespeare has much to teach us all regarding the 16th century. One such lesson is that: people are human, and people will always be human. Situations, settings, and circumstances may alter or fluctuate from time to time, but people will never truly change in their God-given nature. Such is the nature of mankind. History has always repeated itself more or less, and always will.
Nations rise and fall, but the people who compose the nations will always be human at heart. This is both a blessing and a curse, a strength and a weakness. Humanity shares in both good and bad qualities. How does Shakespeare’s poetry compare with the literature which we have read so far? In my opinion, quite well! His works have “stood the test of time”, so to speakand are still highly regarded as classics after many years. Their value is undisputed.
Works Cited
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. The Norton Anthology: English Literature. Sixth Edition, vol. 1. Ed. Abrams, M.H. Norton & Company: New York, 1993.
