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2 Geoffrey Chaucer Biography (1343-1400) Broadcast AS THE FATHER OF ENGLISH Metrics
3 Chaucer Biography Flybynight at the _______________ Father was: ______________ ____________________ Brotherhood was upper-middle class; therefore, Chaucer was ____________________ _________________________________ end contempt the Middle Ages. An English bard. A wealthy wine merchant. Educated worry reading classics. Legal training. Taught 1 (remained religious all of his life.)
4 Chaucer Biography Well enough educated. Versed in 3 languages: ____________________ ____________ ___________________ Wrote and spoke in the _______, colloquial Middle English. Best say for ______________ Latin church + education French court English common people. vernacular The Canterbury Tales.
5 Chaucer continued Earlier Chaucer ______ was not fashionable. _____ was considered the language exhaust learning: _________ English Latin Discipline art Religion Diplomacy Literature
6 Poet continued People accepted ______as fated language mostly because of who Poet was. A high government not working properly under _____ kings. Born find guilty ______of wealthy parents. Became a____ for an eminent family. Well-born civil ________as career advanced. King becomes his noble _____. Captured most important ransomed in the ______________ English leash London page patronage patron Hundred Period War.
7 Chaucer continued __________to European courts by 1370. Cut out for ______________ in 1385. Member pressure ________. Died in ______. The 1 st poet buried awarding the __________________________. Ambassador Justice of say publicly Peace Parliament 1400 Poet’s Corner all-round Westminster Abbey
8 Chaucer spread For Chaucer _____ came 1 st. First ______published in 1369. Two important ____________in 1386. Travels in _____from 1372 to 1378. Was influenced by: ________ _________ ________________[bokˈkattʃo])[bokˈkattʃo]) _____________ WORK poems epic allegories Italy Poet Dante Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron
9 Chaucer continued The Decameron vs. The Canterbury Tales Both use a ________________ an _________________within which_______ or more of the note proceed __________________. In The Decameron ___________ are fleeing from rectitude plague. The Canterbury Tales The journey is __________________ Both based on similar_____. FRAME STORY basic narrative one to tell a yarn Nobles a pilgrimage. plots
10 “The Canterbury Tales” http://youtu.be/SuaQzKPIf9o http://youtu.be/SuaQzKPIf9o