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On 17 April 1387, as part of the annual St George’s Day festivities, it was before the court of Richard II that Chaucer first performed his masterpiece, the Canterbury Tales.

It was clear even then that he’d produced a very important work, but it’s only today that we appreciate it to the full—and are still arguing over every handwritten digit! And even about the basic matter of the sequence in which the tales were actually composed! Of course, Chaucer is now revered and every tiny detail of his life and work is studied under a microscope. But what if he were an unknown today, and became an overnight sensation because of these same Canterbury Tales?

If you go to this site you’ll find an imagined (and very amusing) scenario that says all about today’s society. It is also the source of the above illustration.