30 great myths about Chaucer /
"Chaucer is regularly named as the father of English poetry, the father of English literature, the father of English literary history, the father of the English language, even the father of England itself. This first "myth," with all these associations, is probably the most foundation...
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Hoboken, NJ :
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2020.
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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.