Download or read book Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic written by Philippa Morgan and published by Constable Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The date is 1373. Geoffrey Chaucer - poet, diplomat and sometime spy - is newly returned to England from a successful mission in Florence. Scarcely has he set foot on the London wharfs than he is despatched to the Devon town of Dartmouth.
Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic written by Philippa Morgan and published by Carroll & Graf Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer, newly returned from a delicate mission to Florence on behalf of Edward III, is despatched to sort out a home-grown problem in the Devon seaport of Dartmouth. Geoffrey must leave his family in London and travel west, expecting to solve the theft of the cargo of a Genoese ship with comparative ease. Chaucer and his companions are lodging with a wealthy doctor of physic in his fine house overlooking the water. But there is deep hostility in the port town between citizens and sailors -- accusations and daggers fly. There are tensions in the house as well, and murder occurs soon after their arrival when one of the occupants is done to death in the herb garden. Geoffrey investigates the death and its possible connection to the theft. Meanwhile, Philippa Chaucer, staying in the Palace of Savoy, is warned of a conspiracy against Katherine -- her sister and the mistress to John of Gaunt, now the most powerful man in England after the king. Philippa once saved Katherine's life during an outbreak of plague when they were children. Will she again be called on to protect her sister from her equally dangerous enemies at court?
Download or read book Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire written by Mann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973-06-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life.
Download or read book The Doctor in History Literature Folk lore Etc written by William Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer and the Mediaeval Sciences written by Walter Clyde Curry and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historians on Chaucer written by Stephen Henry Rigby and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2014 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians on Chaucer brings together 25 experts in the history of fourteenth-century England to discuss one of the most famous works of Middle English literature--Geoffrey Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales--in relation to the economic change, social issues, and religious controversies of the period.
Download or read book The Pardoner s Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Clerkes Tale written by Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic written by Philip Gooden and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer Mysteries - Book Three 'A central character and a story that will leave readers clamouring for more.' Booklist 1373. Geoffrey Chaucer, diplomat, king's agent and aspiring poet, is despatched to the Devon port of Dartmouth. A ship from the Italian city of Genoa has been deliberately wrecked and its cargo stolen. A treaty between England and Genoa is at risk. Chaucer must find the perpetrators. Chaucer and his travelling companions are lodged with a wealthy doctor of physic, Richard Storey, and his new, young wife, Sara. The fine house, overlooking the river Dart, is full of intrigue and suspicion between its members and visitors, who include a much-married woman, a softly spoken herbalist and the madam of a local brothel. When a murder occurs, Chaucer's mission grows more perilous still. And there are rumours that the shipwrecked boat contained no ordinary cargo but an object that is worth a king's ransom. Worth killing for. Recommended for fans of CJ Sansom, Steven Saylor and Andrew Taylor. Philip Gooden is a historical novelist and contributor to various short story anthologies. He lives in Bath. Praise for Philip Gooden: 'An absorbing mix of history, suspense and romance, this tale brings one of Britain's most renowned literary figures to credible life.' Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Chaucer written by Chaucer Society and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer The house of fame The legend of good women The treatise on the Astrolabe An account of the sources of the Canterbury tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer for Schools written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virtue and the Doctour of Phisik written by Mark Joseph King and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction--from earthy to Latinate--conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. The selection features complete translations of the majority of the stories, including all of the more familiar tales and narrative links along with abridgments or summaries of the others. To reflect Chaucer's interest in poetic technique, Glaser presents the tales written in non-couplet stanzas in their original forms. An Introduction, marginal glosses, bibliography, and notes are also included.
Download or read book The Nun s Priest s Tale written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
