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Geoffrey Chaucer

April 2024

  • Two pilgrims follow a yellow waymark on the Camino de Santiago.

    The Guardian view on pilgrimage: a 21st-century spiritual exercise

    Editorial: As a recent BBC series confirms, the idea of a spiritual journey has survived the decline of organised religion

November 2023

  • Portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer

    No flatulence, no sex in trees: Victorian children’s sanitised Chaucer to go on display

    A new exhibition in Oxford charts the different ways the great Medieval poet has been interpreted by readers down the centuries

October 2023

  • Geoffrey Chaucer.

    The Guardian view on the British Library’s digital archive: a new life for Chaucer

  • A detail from The Canterbury Pilgrims in a medieval edition of the book by Chaucer.

    Chaucer goes digital as British Library makes works available online

July 2023

  • Illustration of Geoffrey Chaucer (c 1343 - 1400) Original Artwork: engraving by H Shaw, 1402

    Geoffrey Chaucer note asking for time off work identified as his handwriting

    Exclusive: Document originally thought to be written by clerk on behalf of Canterbury Tales writer who worked as civil servant

January 2023

  • The Wife of Willesden, Zadie Smith’s adaptation of Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale.

    Book of the day
    The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner review – Chaucer’s feminist hero

    The Canterbury Tales’ most famous pilgrim is contextualised in a bawdy celebration of medieval womanhood

September 2022

  • Jonathan Jones

    Sacred and profane: what Warhol and Chaucer tell us about the huge royal queue

    Jonathan Jones
    I went to see it and learned why so many are waiting for a sanctified moment, says Guardian arts writer Jonathan Jones

March 2022

  • Vincent Van Gogh’s Almond Blossom.

    Cultural prescription
    Darling buds: books, music, theatre and more with spring in their hearts

    From Chaucer’s elemental epic to Gnarls Barkley’s alternative take on gospel, our critics suggest popular culture inspired by the return of sunnier skies

November 2021

  • The Wife of Willesden. Clare Perkins (Alvita, The Wife of Willesden) Kiln Theatre

    The week in theatre: The Wife of Willesden; Rare Earth Mettle – review

    The Wife of Bath is wonderfully at home in 21st-century Brent in Zadie Smith’s inspired reworking of Chaucer

June 2019

  • portrait of Geoffrey Chaucer by unknown painter (oil on panel.

    Document casts new light on Chaucer 'rape' case

    The poet’s reputation has long been questioned over charge of ‘raptus’. But term may have meant abduction of a bride for his young ward, says academic

May 2019

  • JRR Tolkien photographed in the 1940s.

    Lost volume sheds new light on Tolkien’s devotion to Chaucer

    Abandoned project discovered in Oxford basement helps confirm influence of 14th-century master on Lord of the Rings

March 2019

  • Geoffrey Chaucer, c.1370 … his writing appreciates independent women.

    The teenage dandy's tale: how a female biographer saw Chaucer afresh

    The young Canterbury Tales author was paraded by his employer in scandalously tight outfits, says Oxford academic Marion Turner

September 2018

  • Canterbury Pilgrims from John of Lydgate (1370-1451?) Story of Thebes written c1420 and designed as an addition to Chaucer’s<br>D969F1 Canterbury Pilgrims from John of Lydgate (1370-1451?) Story of Thebes written c1420 and designed as an addition to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

    Reading group
    Chaucer webchat: expert Dr Marion Turner on his feminism, love for slapstick and more

  • Ethereal and earthy … Michael Roberts as The Knight in the Southwark Playhouse’s 2005 adaptation of The Canterbury Tales.

    Reading group
    How Chaucer weaves high-minded poetry with low comedy

  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer goes online at the British Museum. A modern english translation runs parallel to the original version. Pictured is a bawdy excerpt from the Wife of Bath.

    Reading group
    The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's 'plein speke' is a raucous read

  • Canterbury Pilgrims from John of Lydgate (1370-1451?) Story of Thebes written c1420 and designed as an addition to Chaucer's<br>D969F1 Canterbury Pilgrims from John of Lydgate (1370-1451?) Story of Thebes written c1420 and designed as an addition to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

    Reading group
    The Canterbury Tales is our reading group book for September

January 2018

  • Medieval literature

    Tremulous Hand stars in British Library's web showcase of medieval literature

    Annotations of 13th-century reader, known for shaky notes that helped explain Old English to later generations, now survive in cyberspace

October 2017

  • Sunset for pastoral farming? … cows graze at dusk in a field near Gloucester.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about pastoral life

    From Chaucer’s cottage farm to the birth of the organic movement, a farmer-author chooses writing that celebrates a vital but vanishing tradition

July 2017

  • 'Love Island' TV show, Mallorca, Spain - 13 Jul 2017<br>Editorial Use Only. No merchandising Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock (8960157u) Sam Gowland and Tyla Carr chat - Series 3, Episode 39 'Love Island' TV show, Mallorca, Spain - 13 Jul 2017

    Books blog
    Boccaccio in bikinis: the appeal of ITV’s Love Island

    Some claim it’s Shakespearean, some Chaucerian – but in reality it’s more like the Decameron, a 14th-century collection of often bawdy tales

May 2017

  • The Beatles at the launch of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.

    Music blog
    Sgt Pepper at 50: How the Beatles masterpiece could unite Brexit Britain

    Unlike other psychedelic classics, The Fabs’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band doesn’t sound like hippy idealism five decades on. Instead, the diverse, inclusive vision of English identity it promoted couldn’t be more necessary
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