Geoffrey Chaucer
Noun
Meaning
English poet remembered as author of the Canterbury Tales (1340-1400)
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I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.
Among medieval literary texts, Geoffrey Chaucer 's Troilus and Criseyde plays a special role because Chaucer's usage seems to challenge the truth value of proverbs by exposing their epistemological unreliability.
He is known for many executions, including that of his mother, References to Nero's matricide appear in the Sibylline Oracles 5.490–520, Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales The Monk's Tale and William Shakespeare 's Hamlet 3.ii.
Life Chaucer as a pilgrim from the Ellesmere manuscript Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London sometime around 1343, though the precise date and location of his birth remain unknown.
In the City Hustings Roll 110, 5, Ric II, dated June 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer refers to himself as me Galfridum Chaucer, filium Johannis Chaucer, Vinetarii, Londonie'.
In the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales (circa 1386), Geoffrey Chaucer writes that the miller “hadde a thombe of gold.”