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In the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
introduces the speaker of the poem as a man named Chaucer, who is traveling from London with a group of strangers to visit
Canterbury, a borough to the southeast of London. This group of people is thrown together when they travel together on
a trip to the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket, who was murdered in Canterbury in 1170. The Prologue gives a brief description
of the setting as they assemble at the Tibard Inn in Southwark to prepare for their trip.
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