Geoffrey Chaucer wrote Middle English poetry and narrative verse, best known for The Canterbury Tales. The work brings together pilgrims travelling to Canterbury and lets figures such as the Knight, Miller, Wife of Bath and Pardoner tell stories in very different genres and voices. The tales range from courtly romance and moral exemplum to bawdy comedy, while the links between them turn the storytellers themselves into part of the entertainment. Troilus and Criseyde offers a longer tragic love story set during the Trojan War. Chaucer's language can be challenging in the original Middle English, and modern editions vary in annotation or translation. His work fits medieval literature, frame narrative and comic verse. Read more Less
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