This document summarizes and compares three classic works of literature: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, and One Thousand and One Nights. It outlines the main characters and plot of each work. The Decameron features stories told by seven women and three men sheltering from plague in Florence. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories told by pilgrims traveling to Canterbury. One Thousand and One Nights features the character Scheherazade telling the Sultan a story each night to avoid execution. The document concludes that all three works share the common element of characters gathering to tell each other stories.

1.  INDEX:
1. Summary and main characters (DECAMERON)
2. Summary and main characters (CANTERBURY)
3. Summary and main characters ( MIL Y UNA NOCHES)
4. Relationship between the three books
DECAMERON
LAS MIL Y UNA NOCHES
CANTERBURY

2. DECAMERON Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
SUMMARY
The Decameron, written between 1249 and
1353, is a collection of short stories, and a
point of reference for many other narrative
creations.
The work is composed of a hundred stories
that the ten protagonists recount every
night in a village where they take refuge
from the plague that sweeps Florence.
The main characters are seven women and
three men who treat different themes in
each story as love, eroticism, reflection,
fortune ...
MAIN CHARACTERS
Pánfilo, Filostrato, Dioneo, Pampínea,
Neifile, Fiammetta, Filomena, Lauretta,
Emilia and Elisa

3. CANTERBURY Author: Geoffrey chaucer
SUMMARY
Canterbury is a collection of stories,
made by different pilgrims on their
way to the tomb of Thomas Becket
in the Middle Ages. The stories
range from romantic pieces to
pieces to insult and entertain.
Geoffrey Chaucer These stories
address important topics such as
greed, lust, love, forgiveness and
revenge, which we can still relate to
the modern world.
MAIN CHARACTERS
Churchman, Miller, Gentleman,
Storyteller and Barth´s wife.

4. LAS MIL Y UNA NOCHES
SUMMARY
The thousand and one nights is one of the most
important works of universal literature. It is a
compilation of stories and legends of Hindu,
Arabic and Persian origin, of which there is no
definitive text, but multiple versions. King
Schahriar, after suffering the infidelities of his
wife, decides to marry each day with a young
virgin who is executed the following morning to
avoid any other treason. To prevent all the girls
of the kingdom from dying, the young
Scheherazade volunteers to marry the monarch,
and uses his cunning to propose a covenant by
which he can not be executed until he has just
told a story. The tales that compose it will last
for a thousand and one nights, and will end up
captivating the monarch.
MAIN CHARACTERS
Shazaman and Sherezade.
Author:Anonymous

5. SIMILARITIES AMONG BOTH
The three books have in common that include narrations where one
or more characters meet to tell and listen to stories.
In the book of Thousand and One Nights, the Scheherazade Queen
tells a series of fantastic stories to her husband, the Sultan, over many
nights. Many of these stories are, in turn, framed narratives, for example,
Sinbad the Sailor.
In the Tales of Canterbury, a procession of pilgrims organizes a
story competition to ease their journey to Canterbury.
In the Decameron, a group of young aristocrats escape from a city
plagued by the plague and take refuge in a house in the countryside. Not
to be bored, stories are told.

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