Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
5. That which is not given freely by the object of one's love loses its
savor.
6. It is necessary for a male to reach the age of maturity in order to love.
death.
8. Only the most urgent circumstances should deprive one of love.
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Chaucer was sent abroad on
diplomatic missions in 1370 and
again in 13721373. The latter
mission took him to Florence and
Genoa, Italy. There he may have
deepened his acquaintance with
the poetic traditions established by
Dante (12651321) and Petrarch
(13041374). All these authors
influenced Chaucer in some way in
his works, after his diplomatic
work, according to Coghill.
Boccaccio
Chaucer died in 1400,
he was the first
author burried at
Abadia of
Westminster.
Tomb of Chaucer.
Chaucer Works written between 1369 e 1368:
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories that all fit within one
single narrative;
While the tales themselves are narrated by different character a
scribe writes them down
Chaucer presents many types of literary work : romance, fabliaux,
saint story, parable, dialectical, lays, sermon.
The Tales these pilgrims tell come from all over
Europe, many of them from the works of
Chaucers near contemporary. Some come from
further a field, from the ancients from the Orient.
They exemplify the whole range of contemporary
European imagination, then particularly addicted
to stories especcially to stories that had some
sharp point and deducible maxim, moral or idea.
Almost every tale ends with a piece of proverbial
of other wisdom derived from it and with great
benediction on the company (Coghill, p. VII)
The Canterbury Tales: Structure
and Themes:
THE MONK:
* Most of the monks of the Middle
Ages devoted their lives to work
and prayer
* This monk cares littler for the
Rule
* His devotion is to hunting and
eating
* He is large has a shiny face and
a shiny bald head, along with
bulging, darting eyes The Monk
* He is loud and well clad in
hunting boots.
THE WIFE OF BATH: