Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Author / Editor
- Williams, David.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Published
- Robert L. Fastiggi, ed. New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2011, Vol. 1 (Detroit: Gale/Cengage, 2011), pp. 171–75.
- Description
- Summarizes Chaucer's life and career, and comments on TC and CT (especially the Pardoner and Wife of Bath) as demonstrations of Chaucer's "commitment to the religious view of life," his "humanist sympathy" with living in a fallen world, and his commitment to "Christian optimism."
- Alternative Title
- New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2011,
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Pardoner and His Tale