Geoffrey Chaucer ( /ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, alchemist and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works, which include The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde, he is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer is a crucial figure in developing the legitimacy of the vernacular, Middle English, at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London sometime around 1343, though the precise date and location of his birth remain unknown. His father and grandfather were both London vintners; several previous generations had been merchants in Ipswich. (His family name derives from the French chausseur, meaning "shoemaker".) In 1324 John Chaucer, Geoffrey's father, was kidnapped by an aunt in the hope of marrying the twelve-year-old boy to her daughter in an attempt to keep property in Ipswich. The aunt was imprisoned and the £250 fine levied suggests that the family was financially secure—bourgeois, if not elite. John Chaucer married Agnes Copton, who, in 1349, inherited properties including 24 shops in London from her uncle, Hamo de Copton, who is described in a will dated April 3, 1354 and listed in the City Hustings Roll as "moneyer"; he was said to be moneyer at the Tower of London. In the City Hustings Roll 110, 5, Ric II, dated June 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer refers to himself as me Galfridum Chaucer, filium Johannis Chaucer, Vinetarii, Londonie' .
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Plot
Inspired by "The Canterbury Tales," as well as the story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein, this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.
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He Will Rock You
He didn't make the rules. He was born to break them.
William: For that I say my rosary to her and no-one else.::Wat: Will, that's blasphemy.
Chaucer: Look, I have a gambling problem. I can't help myself. And these people will - quite literally - take off clothes of your back.::William: What are you expecting us to do about it?::Peter The Pardoner of Rouen: He assured us that you, his liege, would pay us.::William: And who are you?::Peter The Pardoner of Rouen: Peter, a humble pardoner and purveyor of religious relics.::William: How much does he owe you?::Simon The Summoner of Rouen: Ten gold florins.::William: What would you do to him, if I was to refuse?::Simon The Summoner of Rouen: We, on behalf of the Lord God, would take him of his flesh, so that he may understand that gambling is a sin.
William: It's not in me to withdraw.::Prince Edward: No. Nor me. Though it happens.
Adhemar: You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. In what world could you possibly beat me?
Prince Edward: Your men love you. If I knew nothing else about you, that would be enough.
William: Leave, Roland. Let them have me.::Roland: God love you, William. So do I.
Chaucer: [singing] He's quick, he's funny, he makes me lots of money, Lichtenstein! Lichtenstein!
Old Bishop: [after William rides into the cathedral on a horse to woo Jocelyn] Ladies! Does this not shock you?::Jocelyn: [feigning sadness] I only laugh to keep from weeping.::Old Bishop: I know, child. Pray that the years come quickly for you, taking your beauty so that you may better serve Him.::Jocelyn: I do, every day. [raises hands to face] God, why did you curse me with this face?::Old Bishop: God has a plan we know not. [offers hand to Jocelyn to kiss]::Jocelyn: [goes to kiss hand, but instead admires a costly ring on his finger] Oh, that is lovely...
[first lines]::William: Should we help him?
Jocelyn: Damn your pride, William. It is you and only you that will not see you run.::William: My pride is the only thing that they can't take from me.::Jocelyn: They can take it away from you, they can and they will. Oh, they will. But love they cannot take.
The Cook: Between a jest and a joke, many a truth can be told.
The Wife from Bath: There's nowhere in the Gospels that says we ought to stay virgins. Anyway, tell me, what were the genital organs made for at the creation? Not to lie dormant I suppose. And nobody's going to tell me they were just put there to piss through. Mark you, I use it for that as well. And every man must serve his wife in wedlock...
Perkin's mother: [singing] Oh, there was a little beggar man that goes from town to town, and wherever he get a job and work he's willing to sit down.
Angel: Hey Satan! Lift up your tail and show us where you keep the friars in hell!
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