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How are we to describe the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales? What does it tell us about the society it represents? It seems rather late in the day to ask these questions. For no one could claim that the Prologue has suffered from a lack of critical attention; on the contrary, it has long been praised as the consummate achievement of Chaucer's art.

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