Geoffrey Chaucer of England (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Marchette Gaylord Chute
- First Published: 1946
- Time of Work: 1324–1400
- Setting: England, France, and Italy
- Principal Characters: Geoffrey Chaucer, John Chaucer, Edward III, Alice Perrers, Richard II
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Middle Ages, Biography, Royal courts or courtiers, Fourteenth century
- Locales: France, England, Italy
Form and Content
Marchette Gaylord Chute’s Geoffrey Chaucer of England is a remarkable achievement. In only twenty chapters, she has synthesized most of the documentary evidence available on Chaucer’s life and career with social and political history, as well as summaries and interpretations of most of Chaucer’s works. Her own drawings, which illustrate the book, imitate medieval artistic style and are amusingly decorative. Because much of the data available on Chaucer’s life consists of such sparse material as entries in account books, signatures on receipts and...
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