Chaucer as a pilgrim

Shakespeare uses the device of religious pilgrimage in Merchant of Venice and All's Well. Chaucer's own personality is as elusive as Shakespeare's: the empathy of both with their literary characters masks their own identity. Exerpted from the Ellesmere Manuscript in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. The manuscript is an early publishing of the Canterbury Tales. Courtesy of the Yorck Project, under GNU Free Document License.