Author: Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Franklin Classics
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Deanne Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521832168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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What was the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval and early modern England? Deanne Williams answers this question by contending that not only French language and literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England's literary and cultural identity. Examining a variety of English representations of, and responses to, France and 'the French' in the work of Chaucer, Caxton, Skelton, Shakespeare and others, this book shows how English literature emerged out of a simultaneous engagement with, and resistance to, the pervasive presence of French language and culture in England that was the legacy of the Norman Conquest. Drawing upon theories of gender and postcoloniality, this book revises traditional notions of English literary history by inserting France as a primary element in English self-fashioning, from Chaucer's Prioress to Shakespeare's Henry V.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Pavilion Records
ISBN: 9781899644162
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101127414
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 625

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In the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, who served three kings as a customs official and special envoy, virtually invented English poetry. He did so by wedding the language of common speech to metrical verse, creating a medium that could accommodate tales of courtly romance, bawdy fabliaux, astute psychological portraiture, dramatic monologues, moral allegories, and its author’s astonishing learning in fields from philosophy to medicine and astrology. Chaucer’s accomplishment is unequalled by any poet before Shakespeare and—in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida—ranks with that of the great English novelists. Both The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida are presented complete in this anthology, in fresh modern translations by Theodore Morrison that convey both the gravity and gaiety of the Middle English originals. The Portable Chaucer also contains selections from The Book of Duchess, The House of Fame, The Bird's Parliament, and The Legend of Good Women, together with short poems. Morrison's introduction is vital for its insights into Chaucer as man and artist, and as a product of the Middle Ages whose shrewdness, humor, and compassion have a wonderfully contemporary ring.