One of the most pointed of all Chaucer’s stories is The Pardoner’s Tale—the story of the three young roisterers who went looking for Death. They seize an old man and mockingly demand that he tell them ...
Daily Bruin: Lecture to fuse philosophical ideas with Chaucer’s ‘The Pardoner’s Tale’
This post was updated April 3 at 3:21 p.m. Leonard Koff turns to Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale” as a philosophical test case. The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host ...
Geoffrey Chaucer (born c. 1342/43, London?, England—died , London) was the outstanding English poet before William Shakespeare and “the first finder of our language.” His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in the English language.
Geoffrey Chaucer (l. c. 1343-1400 CE) was a medieval English poet, writer, and philosopher best known for his work The Canterbury Tales, a masterpiece of world literature.
His best-known works are The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. The exact date and place of Geoffrey Chaucer's birth are not known. The evidence suggests, however, that he was born about 1345, or a year or two earlier, in his father's house located on Thames Street, London, England.
Chaucer's undisputed masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales. This collection of stories is framed by a fictional pilgrimage from London to Canterbury, during which a diverse group of pilgrims agrees to tell stories to pass the time. The structure itself was groundbreaking.
Read a concise biography about Geoffrey Chaucer the first great poet to write in English and author of 'The Canterbury Tales'.
This witty, entertaining account of Geoffrey Chaucer’s slimy conman and his moral tale stands up well in 2014 complete with delicious topical twists, an enjoyable bit of interaction and some splendid ...