Презентация "Geoffrey Chaucer. His Life and Work. "The Canterbury Tales""
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
HIS LIFE AND WORK.
‘THE CANTERBURY TALES’
- Lecture 4
- Трякина Светлана Анатольевна,
- учитель английского языка
- ГОУ СОШ №1232 г. Москва
- He was born in London about 1340 into the family of a successful wine importer. His father had connections with the royal court and he was able to place his son as a page in the household of one of King Edward III’s gentlemen.
- His knowledge of these languages fitted him for civil service and diplomatic positions, and also prepared him to translate literary works in all these three languages.
- During the Hundred Years’ War Geoffrey Chaucer went with the English army to France and participated in the siege of Reims.
- Later Chaucer made several trips to France and to Italy on governmental missions.
- He was inspired by French poets, in his earliest poems he imitated French romances.
- He translated from French “The Romance of the Rose” written by de Lorris.
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- Finally he retired and devoted his time to his literary work. In 1387 he started writing his masterpiece, “The Canterbury Tales”. The work was not finished because of the poet’s death in 1400.
- The story-tellers are pilgrims who travel together from London to Canterbury to the shrine of Archbishop Thomas Becket who was murdered by
- the order of Henry II.
- - feudal (related to the land): the Knight, the Squire, the Yeoman
- a romance ( told by the Knight, the Wife of Bath);
- a fable ( told by the Nun’s priest);
- a fabliau( told by the Miller and the Sumner)
- a story of a saint ( told by the second Nun).
- 1. Волосова Т.Д., Геккер “English Literature” , Ч.1,М., «Просвещение», 1977г.
- 2. Кукурян И.Л. “An Outline of English Literature” M., изд-во МГУ, 1997.
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