Geoffrey Chaucer

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Geoffrey Chaucer
1343 - 1400

• Life and Works

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Life

• London 1343
• Oxford Cambridge
• The Hundred Years War
• Frenchs court (1360)
• Travels (Italy, Spain, Flanders)
• Comptroller of the Customs (1347)
• Marries Philippa Roet
• 1386 The Canterbury Tales
• Clerk of the kings works at Westminster (1389)
• He died in London in 1400.

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Life

• Travels
• -France-Spain-Flanders
• -Italy

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Life
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Literary Production

• The French period
• The Romaunt of the Rose
• The Book of the Duchess

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Literary Production
The Italian Period

• The House of Fame
• The Parliament of Foules
• The Legend of Good Women
• Troilus and Criseyde

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Literary Production
English Period The Canterbury Tales

• Long composition
• Its a collection of stories in verses
• Middle English

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Literary Production

• Other Works
• Anelida and Arcite
• Treatise On The Astrolabe

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