Geoffrey Chaucer
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Chaucer the Rapist? October 17, 2022
For nearly 150 years, a cloud has hung over the reputation of Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of “The Canterbury Tales,” long seen as the founder of the English literary canon....
Chaucer Scrapped to Decolonize Curriculum January 27, 2021
London: The University of Leicester will stop teaching the great English medieval poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer in favour of modules on race and sexuality, according to new proposals.Management told the English department that courses on canonical...
'Kek kek! Kokkow! Wuek Wuek!': Chaucer's Voices November 13, 2019
Every age creates its own Chaucer. For Eustache Deschamps, a contemporary, he was the ‘grant translateur’. For Hoccleve, a disciple, he was ‘my deere maistir’ and ‘the firste fyndere [inventive poet] of our fair langage’. The 15th century revered him...
The Bad Biographer's Tale August 05, 2019
The first sentence of the epilogue to Marion Turner’s biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342-1400) aptly summarizes the poet’s legacy: “Chaucer became a monumental poet, enclosed in a monumental tomb, with monumental volumes of his Complete Works fu...
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer August 01, 2019
