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Pardoners Tale/Frankeleyns Tale

Pardoners Tale/Frankeleyns Tale

by Geoffrey Chaucer
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 06/02/2007

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These three tales from the Canterbury Tales are read in the original Middle English by Richard Bebb under the direction of Britain' foremost Chaucer scholar, Derek Brewer.
ISBN:
9789626344392
9789626344392
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
06-02-2007
Language:
English, middle (1100-1500)
Publisher:
Naxos Audio Books
Country of origin:
Hong Kong
Dimensions (mm):
130x138x10mm
Weight:
0.1kg
Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.

While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer was a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.  

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