Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his famous work "The Canterbury Tales" in Middle English, specifically the London dialect of the late 14th century. This dialect was a mix of Old English and Norman French influences and was widely used in literature and administrative documents during Chaucer's time.
"Middle English" is a subset of English. Middle English is the type of English spoken in Chaucer's time, as in _The Canterbury Tales_. English is a language as a whole, but over time, the dialect has changed from Old English, the dialect spoken in _Beowulf_, to Middle English, the dialect spoken in Chaucer's time, in _The Canterbury Tales_, to Modern English, the dialect spoken in Shakespeare's time, in _Hamlet_, to today's English, the dialect I'm writing in right now.
The original Manuscript of the Canterbury Tales was written in Middle English, specifically in the East Midlands dialect. This dialect was commonly spoken in the region of London during the 14th century when Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the tales.
Early Modern English started around 1500. For reference, Shakespeare is in Early Modern English; Chaucer is in the London dialect of Middle English.
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harper lee used dialect to let the author know whats the book is about and how is used
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Chaucer wrote in English, and Dante wrote in Italian, although both were working with older versions than we have now. Chaucer was writing in what they call "Middle English," which is often hard for modern speakers to understand. Dante's Divine Comedy was written in the Tuscan dialect, which was significant at the time because most people were writing poetry in Latin, and writing in other, "lesser" languages was considered uncool. :)
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