North-East Dialect

Scotland

French Influence

John Barbour
Bruce(1375-1378)
East Midland “King’s English”
John Gower
Speculum Meditantis
Miroir de l’ Homme

Vox Clamantis

Confessio Amantis (1383)

Geoffrey Chaucer(1340-1400)
His Life
Sources of Inspiration
Poetic Beauty-
Chaucerian Stanza
Light
Pitch
Restraint
Garrulousness
 Chaucer’s Works
The French Period (1360-1372)
The Romance of the Rose
The Book of Duchess (1369)
Death of Blanche
The Complaint Unto Pity (1369)
The A.B.C.
The Italian Period (1372-1384)
Troilus and Creseyde (1380-1383)
Filostrato..Boccaccio
The Story of Griselda Dante
The Clerk’s Tale Petrarch
The Man of Law’s Tale Boccaccio
Parliament of Fowls
Richard II and Anne of Bohemia
The House of Fame
The Legend of Good Women
The English Period (1384-1392)
The Canterbury Tales (1385-1390)
A Ploughman
The Knight
A Miller
The Squire
A Reeve
The Yeoman
A Franklin
The The Doctor of Physic
Maunciple Man of Law
The Cook Clerk of Oxford
The Host of The Poet
Tabard
Wife of Bath
Haberdasher Parson
The Carpenter Summoner
The Weaver Canon
Dyer Monk
The Tapicer Prioress
Nun
A Merchant Friar
A Shipman Pardoner
The Knight's Tale The Cook's Tale
Palamon ..unfinished
Arcite The Man of Law's Tale
Emily Constance
The Miller's tale Sultan
John Alla
Alison The Reeve's Tale
Nicholas Miller
Absalon Wife
The Wife of Bath's Tale daughter
Knight John
Old Woman Allan
The Friar's Tale The Merchant's Tale
Archbishop January
Summoner May
Yeoman (devil) Damian
Pluto
The Summoner Tale
Prosepina
Friar
The Squires tale
Sir Thomas
Cambuskan
Lady Thomas
Canace
The Clerk's Tale The Franklin's Tale
Walter Arveragus
Griselda Dorigen
Aurelius
The Physcian's Tale
Virginius
Virginia The Prioress' Tale
Apius (Boy)Hugh of Lincoln
Chaucer's Tale
Claudius Sir Topas
The Pardoner’s Tale
Melibee
Three Friends
Prudence
Old Man
Sophia
Radix malorum est cupidatis
The Shipman's Tale
Merchant The Monk's Tale
Wife Fickle Fortune
Sir John
The Nun's Priest's Tale
Chaunticleer
Lady Pertelote
Don Russel
The Second Nun's Tale
Cecilia The Manciple's Tale
Valerian Phoebus
Pope Urban white crow
The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
Canon
Priest The Parson's Tale
sermon