WI: Chaucer finished the Canterbury Tales?

In short, the Canterbury Tales were supposed to be a collection of 124 stories rather than the 24 that Chaucer managed to write before dying in 1400. Bare in mind that this book in its OTL form possibly popularised the use of both 'arse' and 'knob' in the English lexicon, so it is an extremely important piece of work.

This is probably a hard one to make predictions on, but what might be different if Chaucer lived for another, say, ten years and finished the work?
 
DISCLAIMER: I know nothing about Chaucer

Do we know what the remaing 100 stories were supposed to be about?
I can see Chaucer become the most well-known English author, who could not be obershadowed some alt-Shakespeare
 
DISCLAIMER: I know nothing about Chaucer

Do we know what the remaing 100 stories were supposed to be about?
I can see Chaucer become the most well-known English author, who could not be obershadowed some alt-Shakespeare

You could think of it as sort've like the English 1,001 Nights, stories both comedic and dramatic, involving people across all of society and the occasional story involving far-off lands (one of them is even about Genghis Khan!). There were about 30 characters introduced, and the framing plot was that they each had to tell four stories during their journey, two going to Canterbury and two coming back.
 
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