The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint ThomasBecket, and they all tell stories on the way. Who should be thestronger in a marriage - the husband or the wife? And what happenswhen two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five storiesfrom Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different answers tothese questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Clerk ofOxford, the Merchant, and the Franklin.