Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Context of Chaucer
- Spent time in France
- Influenced from French writers and philosophers
- Served in the Hundred Years War between England and France
- Speak French, Italian and Latin
- English Renaissance poetry critic George Puttenham
- Said Chaucer to be father of Eng Literature canon
- Still stands as one of great shapes of literary narrative and character
- Married a powerful woman
- Reflected in Wife of Bath
- Around 1378 - began to develop vision of Eng poetry
- Linguistically accessible to all
- 1387 - writing Canterbury Tales
- Chaucers wife supposedly died in 1387
- Lived through tension in English social sphere
- Black Death
- Political sentiments are unclear
- Refrains from political statements
- Not to rep Chaucers own sentiments