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The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...
That’s how Geoffrey Chaucer spelled “book” in his Canterbury Tales, 625 years ago. Can you give me a hand, here, Geoffrey?
That the author of “The Canterbury Tales” had been accused of rape was long a staple of Chaucer studies. But scholars now suggest it was based on a misreading of court papers from 1380.
Yet as this "superb" exhibition at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries attests, Chaucer (c.1340-1400) was an unconventional figure in his own day, who "has not always been on a canonical pedestal".
A staff member at London’s Guildhall Art Gallery views “Geoffrey Chaucer” (1882) by Sir George J. Frampton prior to an exhibition earlier this year.
Geoffrey Chaucer is buried in the south transept (or south cross) of Westminster Abbey, now known as Poets' Corner.As the author of The Canterbury Tales Chaucer is, next to Shakespeare, perhaps the ...
The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...