In his poem Troilus and Criseyde, the character Pandarus tells the story of Wade to a woman to “stir her passions,” per the ...

The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

That the author of “The Canterbury Tales” had been accused of rape was long a staple of Chaucer studies. But scholars now suggest it was based on a misreading of court papers from 1380.

Dreamed up by Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales more than 600 years ago, the Wife of Bath was known for her lusty appetites, gossipy asides and fondness for wine.

For almost all his life, writing was not Geoffrey Chaucer’s day job. The 14th-century English poet, born a vintner’s son, began work young and changed jobs often. He was first a lackey, then ...

Chaucer’s genius in creating the Wife of Bath was to compose a character who not only subverted the stereotypes of medieval sexism, but who could — at least inwardly — speak back to male power.

Yet as this "superb" exhibition at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries attests, Chaucer (c.1340-1400) was an unconventional figure in his own day, who "has not always been on a canonical pedestal".

Newly-discovered medieval court documents suggest that "father of English literature" Geoffrey Chaucer likely did not commit a crime often attributed to him. For years it has been debated what ...

Nottingham University in England has ignited a debate after issuing a trigger warning on Geoffrey Chaucer’s renowned work, “The Canterbury Tales.” The warning informs students of the religious content ...

The Western canon dodged a bullet last week when Geoffrey Chaucer (1342–1400), author of The Canterbury Tales, was cleared of raping a woman named Cecily Chaumpaigne. Suspicion had been cast by ...

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Flying Circus” Nov. 3-6 in Lakewood’s Senney Theater. (Photo Courtesy of the Beck Center for the Arts) Directed by Russel Stich, “The Canterbury Tales Or … ...