Are the tales in The Canterbury Tales real?

Answer 1

They may be based on a variety of occupational types such as the Miller, several clergyman, the Pardoner"s tale ( not a Western!) and so on. all of these charactersd were tourists on a pilgrimage to the Canterbury Cathedral. a somewhat similar plot device was used by Boccasio"s Decameron ( chamber of ten stories, roughly)/

Answer 2

Yes, although some of the individual tales included in it may have been inspired, or partly inspired, by actual incidents that Chaucer may have known or heard of.

He may have based some of them upon real events that he had been told about, or upon folk tales that were popular at the time, and dramatised these into story form.

Others of the 'Tales' are meant to be allegories about human behaviour, or moral fables.

Answer 3

No, The Canterbury Tales are a work of fiction written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century. They are a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims traveling to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The characters and stories are fictional, although they may have been inspired by real people and events.