Canterbury Tales Notes (p.90-115)

Geoffrey Chaucer Bio  

• lived a portion of his life in the Medieval Times
• Chaucer was an apprentice for the son of a monarch of England and was introduced to the aristocratic society this way
• Serving the English Army, he was captured and held prisoner until King Edward paid for his ransom
• he began writing in his early 20s writing poems about European poets
• his most famous work was The Canterbury Tales which he might have written because he was on the pilgrimage to Canterbury
• In it, he tells the tales of people on their way to Canterbury
• The tales encompass medieval literature such as romance, comedy, rhyme, prose, crude humor, and religious mysteries
• Considered the greatest English poet and the father of english poetry