Explores the life of writer Geoffrey Chaucer. Describes his early life, education and early works, includng his most famous, The Canterbury Tales. Comments on the mixture of jest and earnest characteristic of Chaucer's work.

Geoffrey Chaucer's views on feminism in the Middle Ages can be ascertained in his works of literature, especially in the characters of Griselda from "The Clerk's Tale" and the Wife of Bath in the "Wife of Bath's Tale."

Considered among the most venerable fourteenth-century poets on record, Geoffrey Chaucer and the Pearl Poet ("Pearl," "Purity," "Patience," and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight") share in the same literary practices through their incorporation of the dream narrative, satire of nobility, Boethius, and the Golden Section.

Geoffrey Chaucer's tales of the Miller,the Reve, the Merchant and the Wife of Bath are lewd, but funny, stories in the comic genre of fabliaux.

Two highly acclaimed literary texts which address the class and power ideologies are Geoffrey Chaucer's The Miller's Tale from The Canterbury Tales collection, and Maria Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent. they examine the issues of power and class.

In the Canterbury Tale, The summoner's Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer pokes fun at religion and Chaucer kinds degrades the church and creates a bad image of the church. Chaucer created the Friar to kind of send a message. This Canterbury Tale shows what really goes on in the corrupt world of the church.

Provides biographical detail on the life of writer Geoffrey Chaucer. Describes how he incorporated portions of his life into his Canterbury Tales.

Essay provides information on the literary works of Geoffrey Chaucer.

Essay briefly discusses the writing style of Chaucer.