Modern ways of presenting Chaucer have often made his work seem 'normal' so that The Canterbury Tales and its much-studied General Prologue are seen as archetyp

In this work, Tony Davenport sets Chaucer's work in the context of other 14th-century English writing. He compares Chaucer's handling of subjects, themes and li

"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. E

"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.

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