Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that ...
JSTOR Daily: Bottom-Kissing and the Fragility of Status in Chaucer's Miller's Tale
https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.54.2.0119 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/chaucerrev.54.2.0119 Copy URL ABSTRACT: The Miller's Tale attacks authority and ...
Were the Middle Ages funny? Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley begin their Close Readings series in quest of the medieval sense of humour with Chaucer’s 'Miller’s Tale', a story that is surely still ...
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'.