This volume series aims to provide readers with a convenient source of reliable, scholarly, and accessible information on Chaucer's work, life, and times.
At the Tabard Inn, a tavern in Southwark, near London, the narrator joins a company of twenty-nine pilgrims. The pilgrims, like the narrator, are traveling to the shrine of the martyr Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury.
This version contains explanations and offers modern synonyms of Middle English words originally used by the author.
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Literature and Heresy in the Age of ChaucerAfter the late fourteenth century, English literature was fundamentally shaped by the heresy of John Wyclif and his followers. This study demonstrates how Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Clanvowe, Margery Kempe, Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate, far from eschewing Wycliffism out of fear of censorship or partisan distaste, viewed Wycliffite ideas as a distinctly new intellectual resource.
The Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer (The Great Courses) (Audio CD)
(12 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
By examining texts from his short love lyrics to the copious profusion of character and incident in The Canterbury Tales, this course makes clear why Chaucer is the "father" of English poetry.
You plumb the richness and depth of Chaucer’s poetry and explore his life, the range of his work, and his impact on English language and literature.
Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380's. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work. As a finished long poem it is certainly more self-contained than the better known but ultimately uncompleted Canterbury Tales.
