If Chaucer were writing cautionary tales today, what subject might he write about and what lesson might he try to teach? Explain in 6-8 sentences.

a knowledge of both French and Italian literature

and culture.

Life As a Writer For the rest of his life, Chaucer

held a variety of governmental posts. Despite his

duties, he managed to produce a large body of

work. Many scholars divide his work into three

distinct periods. His early poetry, includes the

Book of the Duchess and the Romaunt of the Rose.

Later, he wrote the Parliament of Fowls and Troilus

and Criseyde. His most mature works, written in

his forties, include the Legend of Good Women and

The Canterbury Tales.

The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is

considered Chaucer’s masterpiece for several reasons. First, it marks the beginnings of a new tradition: Chaucer was the first writer to use English in

a major literary work. Secondly, it gives a picture

of a cross-section of society during the 1300s.

Finally, it is a detailed, lifelike, and engaging picture. Chaucer lets his characters speak as they

might actually talk. This was risky because they

did not always talk in a polite way, which could

offend some readers. Chaucer acknowledges this

fact himself:

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Explanation:

edmund spenser and john bunyan is the answer. hope i !

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.