Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. He was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.

While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women and Troi
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The Canterbury Tales
Troilus and Criseyde
The Riverside Chaucer
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
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The Book of the Duchess
 
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue
Who Murdered Chaucer?: A Medieval Mystery
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling
Company of Liars
The Knight's Tale
The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism)
The Parliament of Birds (Hesperus Poetry)
The Good Wife of Bath
The Life and Times of Chaucer
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William ShakespeareHamlet by William ShakespeareThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerParadise Lost by John Milton
Best Renaissance Literature
59 books — 6 voters
The Corrupter of Boys by Dyan ElliottSodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature by William E. BurgwinkleSilence by Heldris de CornuallesThe Story of Silence by Alex    MyersYde and Olive by Mounawar Abbouchi
Queering the Middle Ages
70 books — 6 voters

The Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Summoner’s Tale by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Nun's Priest's Tale by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Miller's Tale by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Reeve's Prologue and Tale with the Cook's Prologue and th... by Geoffrey Chaucer
Best of The Canterbury Tales
19 books — 3 voters
The Ugly by Alexander BoldizarThe Art of Enchantment by M.A. Clarke ScottSeed of Control by Lawrence VeriginThe Towers of Tuscany by Carol M. CramMythborn II by V. Lakshman
Chanticleer 2016 Winners
6 books — 2 voters

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Marcia  WilliamsThe Parliament of Birds by Geoffrey ChaucerChaucer's People by Liza PicardWho Murdered Chaucer? by Terry JonesThe Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner
Chaucer - his life and works
36 books — 3 voters


I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity.
Brian Helgeland, A Knight's Tale: The Shooting Script

Karen  Brooks
She had devoted time to improving her reading and was now more than proficient. The shelf she'd first cleared with Bianca overflowed with tales of King Arthur and his knights, Ovid's poetry, plays by Sophocles, Aristotle and Aeschylus, Apuleius, names she loved repeating in her mind because the mere sound of them conjured the drama, pageantry, passion, transformations and suffering of their heroes and heroines. One of her favorite writers was Geoffrey Chaucer-- his poems of pilgrims exchanging s ...more
Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

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