The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is an unfinished narrative poem about a group of 30 pilgrims traveling to Canterbury Cathedral to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket. The pilgrims include Chaucer as the narrator and represent different social classes of medieval England. They decide to make the pilgrimage more interesting by having each pilgrim tell two stories on the way to and from Canterbury. The tales include religious, humorous, moral and satirical stories that poke fun at monks, nuns, friars and the medieval church. The Wife of Bath's Tale is one of the most famous and features a widow whose five marriages contradict traditional ideas about medieval women.