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 Cavalier by Israh AziziLe Morte d'Arthur by Thomas MalorySir Gawain and the Green Knight by Gawain PoetThe Lady of Shalott by Alfred TennysonThe Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Knights And Chivalry In Days Of Old
32 books — 18 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


Geoffrey Chaucer
Love will not be constrain'd by mastery. When mast'ry comes, the god of love anon Beateth his wings, and, farewell, he is gone. Love is a thing as any spirit free. ...more
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

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

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