Geoffrey Chaucer And The Canterbury Tales DVD

Known as the father of English literature Geoffrey Chaucer's literary eminence was achieved despite having lived in one of the most troubled centuries the world has known and one particularly fraught for England. Chaucer may have suffered accordingly. It has been proposed that he was murdered! He was born as England had entered into a war of conquest which was to last over 100 years he survived the Black Death and would witness the first revolutionary rising to challenge the status quo to date. He would be a soldier a prisoner a spy a top civil servant and a courtier.... Throughout and despite all this he would lead what was a brief golden age of English literature. Ultimately he may have fallen foul of an English Inquisition. Monty Python's Terry Jones writer film director actor and historian contributes an interview to the programme during which he presents his view of Chaucer and his society with wit charm and passion and vigorously supports his theory that the poet became a victim of the political upheaval caused by the regime change from Richard II to Henry IV. [show more]

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