Geoffrey Chaucer runs the gamut. There are many Chaucers: funny, gloomy, pious, political, gross. There is the learned Chaucer, the feminist Chaucer, the social Chaucer, the religious Chaucer, the ...

In his poem Troilus and Criseyde, the character Pandarus tells the story of Wade to a woman to “stir her passions,” per the statement. And in The Canterbury Tales ’ “ The Merchant’s Tale ,” Wade is ...

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 ...

People have been reading Chaucer’s poetry for over 600 years now. Such long-lasting popularity has in part to do with the great variety of his writings. There’s a lot to like (and dislike): deeply ...

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 ...

“This Chaucer mystery has been plaguing and puzzling scholars for centuries,” said Dr. Falk, a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. Editors raised the question of Wade as early as 1598, he said.

Geoffrey Chaucer is buried in the south transept (or south cross) of Westminster Abbey, now known as Poets' Corner. As the author of The Canterbury Tales Chaucer is, next to Shakespeare, perhaps the ...

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".

Geoffrey Chaucer invented ‘twitter’ It's the 612th anniversary of the death of the famous author. Turns out, he invented the word many of us use commonly in social media today.

Chaucer: Literature at (What Feels Like) the End of the World The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was no stranger to crisis: he was born in the wake of the Black Death, the plague that killed about half ...