The Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are the main characters in the framing narrative of the book. In addition we can consider as characters of the framing narrative the Host, who travels with the pilgrims, the Canon, and the fictive Geoffrey Chaucer, the teller of the tale of Sir Thopas (who might be considered distinct from the Chaucerian narrator, who is in turn somewhat divorced from Chaucer the author).