Chaucer and the Taverners of Ipswich: The Influence of His Paternal Ancestors upon some Portraits and upon His Descendants
- Author / Editor
- Boyd, Beverly.
Chaucer and the Taverners of Ipswich: The Influence of His Paternal Ancestors upon some Portraits and upon His Descendants
- Published
- Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- ii, 214 pp.
- Description
- Argues that as he grew older, Chaucer became disenchanted with the affectations of court life and with the mercantile life of his own father and developed an interest in his paternal ancestors who had been provincial taverners in Ipswich in the county of Suffolk. This development is reflected in the portrait gallery of the GP where Chaucer displays his aversion to affectation and his interest in provincial people.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales