Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
- Author / Editor
- Grosskopf, John Dennis.
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)
- Published
- Laura Cooner Lambdin and Robert Thomas Lambdin, eds. Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008), pp. 120-27.
- Description
- Grosskopf summarizes Chaucer's life and assesses allusions to King Arthur and Arthurian motifs and characters in CT, commenting on SqT, Th, NPT, WBT, and the lack of Arthurian material in KnT. Surveys related critical commentary and suggests that Chaucer satirizes Arthurian tradition because of his disillusionment with chivalric ideals.
- Contributor
- Lambdin, Laura Cooner, ed.
- Lambdin, Robert Thomas, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Arthurian Writers: A Biographical Encyclopedia.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Life
- Knight and His Tale
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale
- Squire and His Tale
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Nun's Priest and His Tale