One of today’s leading choices of entertainment is talk shows. Leading the rest is Jerry Springer. A man much more entertaining that never received ratings for his work was Geoffrey Chaucer. His stories of Midevil life in England bring far more surprise to an audience than any of Springer’s guests. His story The Miller’s Tale ...
Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be the greatest English poet of the middle ages and he is also my favorite poet. While I appreciate all forms of poetry, I rarely read poems for entertainment. Even though Chaucer wrote in verse, most of his masterpieces read like a novel. Chaucer was also master of satire which ...
Geoffrey Chaucer has been acclaimed as the “Father of English Literature”. His writings (usually the Canterbury Tales) are on required reading lists in literature classes in schools and universities around the world. For any one who still hadn’t heard of him, Chaucer has made appearances in pop culture. For example, Paul Bettany plays Chaucer in ...
Before William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer, there was the man who both inspired and influenced much of their work: Giovanni Boccaccio. Boccaccio composed ground-breaking literary works during his lifetime that built the foundation for literature today. His poems and epics written in Italian and Latin became classics that would endure for hundreds of years and ...
“The Knight’s Tale” is part of a collection entitled “The Canterbury Tales.” It is the first of many tales presented by Chaucer in this collection. The setting of the story is ancient Greece long before the days of Themistocles or Pericles. Even the sack of Troy is a more recent occurrence. Our story takes place ...
When we think about what life was like for women in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval periods, we often think of them as someone without a life or a say as to how to run their household. But even though the husband was the dominating partner in marriage, the wife held significant importance. The following will illustrate ...
