To the Great Regret of So Many Highschool Students

To the Great Regret of So Many Highschool Students

       Today, in 1397, at the court of King Richard II, Geoffrey Chaucer began the presentation of the Canterbury Tales.  The Canterbury Tales would go on to be a classic of English  (actually late Middle English) literature, joining several other contemporaneous works in using English rather than French or Latin for "literary" works.