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 ...

In a hair-raisingly elaborate scheme, a woman in Britain has been arrested for allegedly using an “array of wigs” to take ...

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new ...

He was born between 1340 and 1343, son of John Chaucer, a London vintner, and Agnes (Copton). Geoffrey began his career in the service of Lionel, third son of King Edward III, and held various offices ...

The study protocol used five poems from 10 famous English poets including Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Allen Ginsberg and Sylvia Plath. The researchers enlisted ...

The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...

Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, invites audiences to ...

Geoffrey Chaucer joins the Yebeebies gang for a ruder than usual story. Chaucer was one of the first people to write down some of the naughtier words that we use today.

Among its vast collection are a fragment of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" manuscript, as well as the personal letters and papers of writers, military generals and more. There is even a ...

Terry Jones (of Monty Python) gives a narrative of the life of and society around Geoffrey Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer's life to middle age, He survived the Black Death as a child, and become ...