30 great myths about Chaucer /
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| Author / Creator: | Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine), author. |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020. ©2020 |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12376886 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Mythical Chaucer
- Chaucer is the father of English literature
- Chaucer was the first English poet
- Chaucer suffered an unrequited love
- Chaucer's marriage was unhappy
- Chaucer's son Thomas was John of Gaunt's bastard
- Chaucer's language is too difficult for modern readers
- The Canterbury pilgrims represent all social classes and character types
- The Canterbury pilgrims are based on real people
- The Canterbury pilgrims form a "merry company"
- Chaucer was a feminist
- Chaucer was guilty of rape
- Chaucer had a falling out with his best friend
- Chaucer lived in the Middle Ages
- Chaucer was a proto-Protestant
- Chaucer was antisemitic
- Chaucer was a spy
- Chaucer was a crook
- Chaucer was a political opportunist
- The Wife of Bath murdered her husbands
- Chaucer "outs" the Pardoner
- Chaucer never finished the Canterbury Tales
- Chaucer is obscene
- Chaucer was skeptical of chivalry
- Chaucer described himself in his works
- Chaucer wrote the first psychological novel in English
- Chaucer was in danger of being thrown in debtor's prison
- Chaucer renounced his works on his deathbed
- Chaucer is buried in his own tomb
- Chaucer was the first poet laureate
- Contemporary literary theory is irrelevant to Chaucer.
