Chaucer
Was a writer, poet and singer
His work can be divided into three phases
FRENCH PHASE
ITALIAN PHASE
ENGLISH PHASE
Inspired by Dante and Petrarca
He did the translation of "le romane de la rose"
The Canterbury Tales
The wife of Bath
He is inspired by Boccaccio Decameron
He was born in London (1343)
He had middle-class origins.
The Canterbury Tales
(c.1386 -1393).
It is a collection of verse tales.
He was a diplomat at Edward III’s Court.
He was captured by French in 1359
It's one of the major works in the in English literature
Troilus and Cryseide
Chaucer Is named the father of English literature
He went to the Flanders and to Italy
It is written in couplets of
iambic pentameters.
A line of verse composed of ten syllabes, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, for example: To BE or NOT to BE.
He was burried in Wistminster in 1400