Brief Lives: Geoffrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Ashton, Gail.

Title
Brief Lives: Geoffrey Chaucer

Published
London: Hesperus, 2010.

Physical Description
117 pp.

Description
Surveys the array of Chaucer biographies derived sequentially from early accounts and editions, portraits, life records, literature, and popular culture, including recent blogging. Describes Chaucer's early entry into court life, his court duties, spurious works, depictions in manuscripts and editions, implications of the paucity of information about his marriage and death, the changed political climate under Henry IV, Chaucer's literary legacy, and his biological heirs.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Life.