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This 5 page paper provides biographical data and uses it to find themes in Canterbury Tales. Several stories are analyzed in detail and some attention is paid to the possibility that Chaucer committed a crime for which he feels guilt. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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likely attended school at St. Pauls Cathedral (PG). The first actual record of the man reveals that in 1357 he had been a page in the household of the
Countess of Ulster, and from that time forward , Chaucer becomes linked in one way or another to the royal family (PG). During wartime, Chaucer was actually taken prisoner as
he was under the auspices of Prince Lionel and the King actually ransomed him for a substantial sum (PG). Geoffrey would live to fight another day. Chaucer
had gone again to France later that same year, but he was on a mission for Prince Lionel ("Chaucer" PG). He was 15 years old at the time (PG).
Chaucer would disappear--at least as far as records are concerned--for a number of years (PG). There is speculation that either he had gone away to be educated or that he
had been working again for Prince Lionel (PG). Reasons for the assumption have to do with the fact that in Retractions, which comes at the end of Canterbury Tales, he
had made "many a song and many a leccherous lay " (PG). The author believes that it is likely that such songs and lays had been the product of
his youthful years, and that he acquired a reputation for songs as well as jocular tales (PG). Documents found do suggest that in 1366, Chaucer had been in Spain; he
would return to marry a woman who lived in the Queens chamber named Philippa (PG). She was the daughter or Sir Payne Roet (PG). In 1369, Philippa died
and the war resumed. In 1380, Chaucers name seems to crop up on legal documents, one in respect to a possible rape or other action ("Chaucer" PG).
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