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The Canterbury tales

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Penguin, Feb 1, 2003 - Poetry - 504 pages
With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life—from knight to nun, miller to monk—reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative.


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One of the best pieces of writing. - Goodreads
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I treat this more as prose than poetry. - Goodreads
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A series of short stories are told along a pilgrimage by the different travelers. This work is important to read because it recalls the days when stories told rather than written. This work is ... Read full review

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I only read: The "General Prologue", the "Miller's Tale", the "Reeve's Tale", the "Pardoner's Tale", the "Wife of Bath's Tale", the "Merchant's Tale", and the "Nun's Priest's Tale". Some of the stories were funny and others were just weird. Read full review

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Jane Zatta's CHAUCER site
With Prof. Jane Zatta's passing, her CHAUCER site has been moved so that it might be preserved in recognition of her contributions to Chaucer and Middle ...
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The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). ...
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Geoffrey Chaucer, father of English Literature. Quotes, biography, works, articles, and links to additional resources
www.luminarium.org/ medlit/ chaucer.htm

Jane Zatta's Chaucer Web Site Index
Extensive background on each tale plus links to other resources
www.unc.edu/ depts/ chaucer/ zatta/ Zatta_Index.html

Full text and plot summary of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Bibliomania e-text and plot summary: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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The Canterbury Tales Project
In this talk, we will outline the aims of the Canterbury Tales Project, say something of the methods we are using to achieve these aims, and reflect on the ...
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - Read Print
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Glencoe Literature: Literature Library - The Canterbury Tales
In The Canterbury Tales, a band of men and women meets at an inn to begin a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas ŕ Becket. The inn's host suggests that they ...
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The Canterbury Tales Summary and Analysis
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ~ presented by ELF
Welcome to the ELF Edition of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. This site features two full editions of the Canterbury Tales online: the original ...
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About the author (2003)

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London, the son of a wine-merchant, in about 1342, and as he spent his life in royal government service his career happens to be unusually well documented. By 1357 Chaucer was a page to the wife of Prince Lionel, second son of Edward III, and it was while in the prince's service that Chaucer was ransomed when captured during the English campaign in France in 1359-60. Chaucer's wife Philippa, whom he married c. 1365, was the sister of Katherine Swynford, the mistress (c. 1370) and third wife (1396) of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, whose first wife Blanche (d. 1368) is commemorated in Chaucer's ealrist major poem, The Book of the Duchess.

From 1374 Chaucer worked as controller of customs on wool in the port of London, but between 1366 and 1378 he made a number of trips abroad on official business, including two trips to Italy in 1372-3 and 1378. The influence of Chaucer's encounter with Italian literature is felt in the poems he wrote in the late 1370's and early 1380s – The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls and a version of The Knight's Tale – and finds its fullest expression in Troilus and Criseyde.

In 1386 Chaucer was member of parliament for Kent, but in the same year he resigned his customs post, although in 1389 he was appointed Clerk of the King's Works (resigning in 1391). After finishing Troilus and his translation into English prose of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae, Chaucer started his Legend of Good Women. In the 1390s he worked on his most ambitious project, The Canterbury Tales, which remained unfinished at his death. In 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the precincts of Westminster Abbey but died in 1400 and was buried in the Abbey.
Nevill Coghill (1899–1980) held many appointments at Oxford University. His translation of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is also published by Penguin Classics.

 

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