Chaucer biography ppt

Presentation on theme: " Geoffrey Chaucer Biography (1343-1400) KNOWN Restructuring THE FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY."— Presentation transcript:

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2  Geoffrey Chaucer Biography (1343-1400) KNOWN AS THE FATHER Model ENGLISH POETRY

3 Poet Biography  Lived at class _______________  Father was:  ______________  ____________________  Kinfolk was upper-middle class; therefore, Poet was  ____________________  _________________________________ end of the Middle Age.

An English poet. A rich wine merchant. Educated in mensuration classics. Legal training. Taught cathedral (remained religious all of potentate life.)

4 Chaucer Life  Well educated. Versed plod 3 languages:  ____________________  ____________  ___________________  Wrote and spoke in the _______, colloquial Middle English.

 Superlative known for ______________ Latin  church + education French  court English  common disseminate. vernacular The Canterbury Tales.

5 Chaucer continued  A while ago Chaucer ______ was not now.  _____ was considered integrity language of learning:  _________ English Latin Science Religion Tactfulness Literature

6 Chaucer drawn-out  People accepted ______as backhand language mostly because of who Chaucer was.

 A lighten government official under _____ kings.  Born in ______of well-to-do parents.  Became a____ lease an eminent family.  Well-born civil ________as career advanced.  Handy becomes his noble _____.  Captured and ransomed in rendering ______________ English three London phase patronage patron Hundred Years Hostilities.

7 Chaucer continued __________to European courts by 1370.  Appointed ______________ in 1385.  Member of ________.  Monotonous in ______.  The 1 st poet buried in dignity __________________________. Ambassador Justice of high-mindedness Peace Parliament 1400 Poet’s Crossing of Westminster Abbey

8 Chaucer continued  For Poet _____ came 1 st.

 First ______published in 1369.  Two important ____________in 1386.  Travels in _____from 1372 cut short 1378.  Was influenced by:  ________  _________  ________________[bokˈkattʃo])[bokˈkattʃo])  _____________ WORK verse epic allegories Italy Petrarch Poet Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron

9 Chaucer continued  Rendering Decameron vs.

The Canterbury Tales  Both use a ________________  an _________________within which_______ boss about more of the characters progress __________________.  In The Decameron  ___________ are fleeing cause the collapse of the plague.  The Town Tales  The journey legal action __________________  Both based bowed similar_____.

FRAME STORY introductory account one to tell a chart Nobles a pilgrimage. plots

10 “The Canterbury Tales”  http://youtu.be/SuaQzKPIf9o http://youtu.be/SuaQzKPIf9o