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happy? - Oct 25 (Geoffrey Chaucer)
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Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 25 (Geoffrey Chaucer) From: Helen Date: 25 Oct 05 - 05:44 PM If you want a treat, watch the recent BBC television series, available on DVD, of the modern retelling of some of the Canterbury Tales. I studied Chaucer for 3 years at Uni. I love his writing and his wicked wit. If I had a time machine I would like to hear him tell the stories in person. Helen |
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 25 (Geoffrey Chaucer) From: Peace Date: 25 Oct 05 - 02:26 PM He is indeed the man. |
Subject: RE: happy? - Oct 25 (Geoffrey Chaucer) From: Paul Burke Date: 25 Oct 05 - 11:27 AM At least Terry Jones- he of Monty Python- believes that Chaucer was murdered as a political opponent of the newly installed king Henry IV and perhaps as a heretic. And perhaps because keeping him alive would have meant paying his pension. |
Subject: happy? - Oct 25 (Geoffrey Chaucer) From: Abby Sale Date: 25 Oct 05 - 09:46 AM Folk tale teller (and renderer from the Italian), Geoffrey Chaucer died 10/25/1400 at about age 60 Before dying he recorded full details of events still commonly related in Ireland today. As happens, the story was turned to song several times throughout the British Isles and more recently in Ireland (perhaps by Cathal McGarvey 1866-1927). This last was collected from tradition as late as 1952:
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