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The Canterbury Tales is a variety of story's told by pilgrims on their journey to Canterbury. These included three characters who stayed at an inn at southwark with Geoffery Chaucer the writer and made a deal with the inn keeper. The inn keeper said that they were a great company at his inn and said that he would come on their journey with them. If they played a storytelling game. The person who told the best story would win a free night and food at the inn keepers inn. So the following characters told their story's to the judge and encountered new comers on the way to join their game.

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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century. The tales are presented as a group of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury, each telling a story to pass the time. The tales provide a diverse and vivid snapshot of medieval English society.

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