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Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)

Autor(a) de The Canterbury Tales

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About the Author

Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England's greatest poets, was born in London about 1340, the son of a wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler and his wife Agnes. Not much is known of Chaucer's early life and education, other than he learned to read French, Latin, and Italian. His experiences as a mostrar mais civil servant and diplomat are said to have developed his fascination with people and his knowledge of English life. In 1359-1360 Chaucer traveled with King Edward III's army to France during the Hundred Years' War and was captured in Ardennes. He returned to England after the Treaty of Bretigny when the King paid his ransom. In 1366 he married Philippa Roet, one of Queen Philippa's ladies, who gave him two sons and two daughters. Chaucer remained in royal service traveling to Flanders, Italy, and Spain. These travels would all have a great influence on his work. His early writing was influenced by the French tradition of courtly love poetry, and his later work by the Italians, especially Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Chaucer wrote in Middle English, the form of English used from 1100 to about 1485. He is given the designation of the first English poet to use rhymed couplets in iambic pentameter and to compose successfully in the vernacular. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a collection of humorous, bawdy, and poignant stories told by a group of fictional pilgrims traveling to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket. It is considered to be among the masterpieces of literature. His works also include The Book of the Duchess, inspired by the death of John Gaunt's first wife; House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women. Troilus and Criseyde, adapted from a love story by Boccaccio, is one of his greatest poems apart from The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer died in London on October 25, 1400. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in what is now called Poet's Corner. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales (0014) 21,967 cópias
The Riverside Chaucer (1369) 1,936 cópias
Troilus and Cressida (1374) 1,879 cópias
Chanticleer and the Fox (1958) 1,598 cópias
The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1400) 800 cópias
Chaucer's Major Poetry (1963) 251 cópias
The Knight's Tale (1966) 138 cópias
The Portable Chaucer (1949) 135 cópias
The Canterbury Tales (2011) — Original work — 106 cópias
The Parliament of Birds (1960) 100 cópias
Chaucer Reader (1950) 78 cópias
The Miller's Tale (1983) 77 cópias
The Legend of Good Women (1386) 53 cópias
The Book of the Duchess (1532) 46 cópias
The Franklin's Tale (1931) 40 cópias
The prologue and three tales (1964) 39 cópias
Tales from Chaucer (1947) 28 cópias
The House of Fame (2013) 23 cópias
Chaucer's dream poetry (1997) 20 cópias
The Clerkes Tale of Oxenford (1923) 20 cópias
Ridder Sox en Koekeloer (1956) 13 cópias
The Romaunt of the Rose (1999) 13 cópias
Selected Canterbury Tales (2002) 11 cópias
Tales from Chaucer (1900) 11 cópias
The Prioress' Tale (1987) 9 cópias
The Merchant's Tale (1970) 8 cópias
Chaucer 8 cópias
The Reeve's Tale 7 cópias
The Parson's Tale (1995) 7 cópias
The Wadsworth Chaucer (1986) 6 cópias
The manciple's tale (1984) 6 cópias
Anelida and Arcite (1905) 6 cópias
An ABC 5 cópias
The Summoner's Tale (1995) 4 cópias
A Choice of Chaucer's Verse (1972) — Autor — 4 cópias
The Man of Law's tale (1969) 4 cópias
Truth {poem} 2 cópias
Concubine (e-book) (2009) 2 cópias
The Canterbury Tales I 1 exemplar(es)
Verona (2013) 1 exemplar(es)
The Canturbury Tales 1 exemplar(es)
Persuasion 1 exemplar(es)
A first Chaucer 1 exemplar(es)
Canterbury Tales, A6 1 exemplar(es)
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar(es)
Chaucer´s Works (2018) 1 exemplar(es)
Canterburysägner II 1 exemplar(es)
Canterbury tales (selected); (1970) 1 exemplar(es)
Historias de Chaucer 1 exemplar(es)
A CHAUCER COLORING BOOK (1973) 1 exemplar(es)
Lyrics And Allegory (1971) 1 exemplar(es)
The Ellesmere Chaucer 1 exemplar(es)
Canterburysägner I 1 exemplar(es)
The College Chaucer (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
Chaucer's Dream 1 exemplar(es)
Chaucer's A.B.C. 1 exemplar(es)
The Assembly of Fowls 1 exemplar(es)
The Court of Love 1 exemplar(es)
The Book of the Duchess 1 exemplar(es)
The Miller's Tale 1 exemplar(es)
Poetical Works 1 exemplar(es)
The Prioress's Tale 1 exemplar(es)
Clásicos bruguera 1 exemplar(es)
The Monk's Tale 1 exemplar(es)
The Second Nun's Tale 1 exemplar(es)
Tale Of Sir Thopas 1 exemplar(es)
The Friar's Tale 1 exemplar(es)
The Cook's Tale 1 exemplar(es)
The Canterbury tales I & II (1966) 1 exemplar(es)
The College Chaucer 1 exemplar(es)
Boece 1 exemplar(es)
Short poems 1 exemplar(es)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1991) 1 exemplar(es)
December 1 exemplar(es)
Great Books 22 1 exemplar(es)
Canterburyn kertomuksia 1 exemplar(es)
Chaucer Complete Works 1 exemplar(es)
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplar(es)
Works V (2016) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contribuinte — 1,261 cópias
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições917 cópias
English Poetry, Volume I: From Chaucer to Gray (1910) — Contribuinte — 543 cópias
The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999) — Contribuinte — 472 cópias
From the Tower Window (My Book House) (1932) — Contribuinte — 267 cópias
Medieval English Lyrics: A Critical Anthology (1963) — Contribuinte — 195 cópias
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contribuinte — 141 cópias
The Oxford Book of Villains (1992) — Contribuinte — 136 cópias
Major British Writers, Volumes I and II (1954) — Contribuinte — 122 cópias
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Contribuinte — 116 cópias
Great Stories for Young Readers (1969) — Contribuinte — 91 cópias
The Treasury of English Short Stories (1985) — Contribuinte — 85 cópias
Heroic Fantasy Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2017) — Contribuinte — 82 cópias
The Bedside Book of Famous British Stories (1940) — Contribuinte — 67 cópias
A Book of Narrative Verse (1930) — Contribuinte — 63 cópias
The Faber Book of Gardens (2007) — Contribuinte — 45 cópias
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Contribuinte, algumas edições44 cópias
Selected sonnets, odes, and letters (1966) — Tradutor, algumas edições39 cópias
Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2006) — Contribuinte — 33 cópias
Floure and the Leafe, the Assembly of Ladies, the Isle of Ladies (1990) — mis-attribution, algumas edições33 cópias
The Canterbury Tales [1972 film] (1972) — Original book — 30 cópias
Masters of British Literature, Volume A (2007) — Contribuinte — 20 cópias
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (1967) — Contribuinte, algumas edições18 cópias
The Ribald Reader: 2000 Years of Lusty Love and Laughter (1906) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories (1947) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
Trees: A Celebration (1989) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Men and Women: The Poetry of Love (1970) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
The tale of Gamelyn : from the Harleian ms. no. 7334, collated with six other mss. (1884) — Attribution, algumas edições7 cópias
Discussions of the Canterbury Tales (1961) — Autor — 6 cópias
Chaucer's Translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosphiæ." (0014) — Tradutor, algumas edições5 cópias
Famous Stories of Five Centuries (1934) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Die Aussprache des Chaucer- Englischen. (1998) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Spøgelseshistorier fra hele verden — Contribuinte, algumas edições3 cópias
Great Poems from Chaucer to Whitman — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
El cuento literario (2008) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
The Court of Venus (1955) — mis-attribution, algumas edições1 exemplar(es)

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s um dos livros que ajudaram a formar a literatura ocidental tal como a conhecemos: comédia, costumes fustigados e a graça infinita de um titã da imaginação. Publicado pela primeira vez em 1475, Contos da Cantuária é uma coleção magistral de histórias de cavalaria, alegorias morais e farsa desbragada. Tudo começa a partir de um certame entre peregrinos acerca das melhores histórias de cavalaria e romances. Rico e diverso, o livro descortina - com crueza e lirismo, graça e deboche - o universo social e cultural da Inglaterra em plena Idade Média. Anedotas, ciclos cavalheirescos, escatologia, ensinamentos edificantes e muita caricatura surgem nas histórias desses peregrinos que rumam em direção à Cantuária, onde pretendem visitar o túmulo de São Thomas Becket.
Vertido para o português com maestria, mas sem deixar de lado o humor e a diversão, o livro tem tudo para cativar leitores de todas as idades.
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jgcorrea | outras 167 resenhas | Oct 17, 2022 |
The Canterbury Tales are at the same time a historical and literary reading. Through the characters you can see a whole frame of representations from Middle Ages. From the women of Bath to merchant, prayers, prioesses, friars... religious, economical, burguois and low society. This book is an incredible source for scholars, students and readers.
 
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Nevill Coghill Translator, Editor
Vincent F. Hopper Editor and translator, Translator
Barbara Cohen Translator
Malcolm Andrew Critical Commentary, Editor
Charles Moorman Text and Collations
Daniel Ransom Textual Commentary
William Caxton Preface, Illustrator, Contributor
Barbara Cooney Illustrator
Edward Burne-Jones Illustrator
Walter Map Contributor
Barbara Nolan Contributor
Ovid Contributor
Francis Petrarch Contributor
Giovanni Boccaccio Contributor
St. Augustine Contributor
F. R. H. Du Boulay Contributor
St. Jerome Contributor
Macrobius Contributor
Paul Strohm Contributor
John Gower Contributor
Theophrastus Contributor
Pope Gregory X Contributor
Robert Rypon Contributor
Carolyn Dinshaw Contributor
Lee Patterson Contributor
William Langland Contributor
Arthur W. Hoffman Contributor
Jean de Meun Contributor
Marie de France Contributor
Thomas. Wimbledon Contributor
Trina Sebart Hyman Illustrator
Trina Schart Hyman Illustrator
Hermann Rosse Illustrator
Arthur Szyk Illustrator
Donald C. Baker Editor, Introduction
M. B. Parkes Introduction
Robert Hill Adapted by
A.I. Doyle Introduction
T. E. Lawrence Contributor
Peter Tuttle Translator
Louis Untermeyer Introduction
Nick Bantock Illustrator
Robert W. Hanning Introduction, Editor
Ted Stearn Cover designer, Cover artist
Gerard NeCastro Translator
A. J. Barnouw Translator
J.U. Nicolson Translator
Victòria Gual Translator
John Wain Introduction
David Wright Translator
Ernst van Altena Translator
Victor G. Ambrus Illustrator
Robert Latham General editor
Rockwell Kent Illustrator
R. M. Lumiansky Translator
Derek Pearsall Introduction
Melvyn Bragg Foreword
Raffel Burton Translator
Peter Forster Illustrator
Peter Levi Blurber
Mark Allen Editor
William Morris Designer, Illustrator
Eric Gill Illustrator
Edward Gorey Cover designer
Peter Brookes Illustrator
Roy Morgan Cover artist
Greg Irons Illustrator
W. Russell Flint Illustrator
Ann McMillan Translator
Burton Raffel Translator
Warwick Goble Illustrator
J.J. Mak Editor

Estatísticas

Obras
396
Also by
47
Membros
41,092
Popularidade
#426
Avaliação
3.8
Resenhas
364
ISBNs
1,014
Idiomas
24
Favorito
104

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