For more details of these cookies and how to disable them, see our cookie policy. Sign up for our e-newsletter. Search our website. Home Launch Flash Timeline. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. Back Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales c. Explore more timeline content: Jump to: s s s s s s s s s s s. Back to top. Late in or early in he returned to England and settled in Westminster. The Tales were already established as a well-loved classic, and it seems a shrewd choice for Caxton to make this work the first big project for his English book production.
He could expect it to sell well. Caxton produced smaller items at the same time, including a printed letter of indulgence. Indulgences were remissions of sin, awarded by the Catholic Church in exchange for a donation of money. This would have ensured a decent cash flow while Caxton was engaged on the larger project.
Caxton printed all kinds of texts: mythic tales, popular stories, poems, phrasebooks, devotional pieces and grammars. Thanks to the invention of printing, books became quicker to produce and cheaper to purchase — although they were still a luxury. An ever-increasing number of writers were able to publish their works, literacy rates rose, language gradually became more uniform and an early form of modern English began to emerge.
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For over years the versions of the plays recorded in the First Folio and the earlier, cheaply printed quarto editions have been used by actors. Geoffrey Chaucer Born: c. Share this article WeChat. Copy link. Related articles.
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