Troilus and Criseyde
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Troilus and Criseyde is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It
Geoffrey Chaucer reciting before nobles
A Scene from Troilus and Cressida Angelica Kauffmann
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet, writer and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. He has been called the 'father of English literature', or alternatively, the 'father of English poet
Troilus and Criseyde
…Troilus and Criseyde () is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy. It was…
1412 portrait
Chaucer as a pilgrim (from the early fifteenth-century Ellesmere manuscript of the Canterbury Tales)
A nineteenth-century depiction of Chaucer
Blue plaque at the site of the Tabard inn in Southwark, London, where in 1386 the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales set off to visit Canterbury Cathedral