Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales

Study Geoffrey Chaucer using Online Video

With this title, you'll explore the world of Geoffrey Chaucer, whose insights to human nature found timeless expression in Canterbury Tales. Use our 2 online educational video titles to explore the world of Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English poetry and a masterful storyteller, whose insights into human nature found timeless expression in Canterbury Tales. Unveil a realm of pageantry, plague, feudal battles, and gallant knights. Learn how Geoffrey Chaucer chronicled this world through an ingenious collection of stories that revealed the many contrasts defining medieval society.

Learning Objectives:

• Build a greater appreciation of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, a masterful storyteller and the father of English poetry.
• Discover how Geoffrey Chaucer chronicled the manners and morals of fourteenth-century England in Canterbury Tales, an ingenious collection of stories wittily revealing insights to human nature and the many contrasts that defined medieval society.
• Understand the social, political, and intellectual world of fourteenth-century England, a time of pageantry and plague, feudal battles, and gallant knights.
• Listen to a recording, in Middle English, of "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" from Canterbury Tales, a chivalrous story that solves the riddle, "What thing is it that women most desire?"

• Literature > The History Of British Literature > The Time Life And Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer And Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims
• The Time Life and Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Runtime: 17:15)
• Chaucers Canterbury Pilgrims (Runtime: 29:35)