when was the canterbury tales written
THE CANTERBURY TALES. The Canterbury Tales is a work written by Geoffrey Chaucer. During 1380-1392, he wrote the General Prologue and some of Canterbury Tales. By the year 1400, he had completed the Canterbury Tales, perhaps the most famous poem in medieval English! In the General Prologue, Chaucer describes most of the twenty-nine pilgrims whom he encounters at the inn, who are on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.