2. INTRODUCTION
Decameron by Boccaccio was the most important influence on
Chaucer when he wrote The Canterbury Tales. In fact,
Chaucer wrote several stories very similar to the stories by
Boccaccio.
3. CHARACTERISTICS OF CANTERBURY TALES AND DECAMERON
+They have stories short which are told by a group of pilgrins.
+They talk about love, human intelligence and fortune.
+The structure of both books is similar.
+ Most tales are written in verse.
+ Both books made literature more popular.
4. DIFERENCES BETWEEN DECAMERON AND CANTERBURY TALES
+ The character of Decameron are rich people but the character
of Canterbury Tales are humble people from different social
classes.
+ Decameron has 100 tales and Canterbury tales 24 stories.
+ Decameron was written in Italian and Canterbury tales in
Esglish.
5. CHARACTERISTICS OF CANTERBURY TALES AND 1001
NIGHTS
+ They talk about love, human intellligent and fortune.
+ They are both short stories.
6. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CANTERBURY TALES AND 1001 NIGTTS
The most important difference is that i 1001 nighta, the character
are fantastic and in Canterbury tales the character are real.