FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
EDMUND SPENSER
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Geoffrey Chaucer was the author of The Canterbury Tales. However, when he asked to be buried here, it was for his role as the Clerk of the King’s Works. About 200 years later, the writer of The Faerie Queen, Edmund Spenser requested that he be buried near Chaucer, probably because of his literary works.
Detailed explanation-2: -In December 1399 Chaucer was granted a lease of a tenement belonging to the Abbey. The poet died on 25 October 1400 and probably because he was an Abbey tenant and was still in royal favour, he was buried in the south transept. The area around his tomb came to be known as Poets’ Corner.
Detailed explanation-3: -Geoffrey Chaucer Chaucer, who died in 1400, was buried in Westminster Abbey near where he lived at the end of his life. He had been a loyal servant to the crown and was the brother-in-law of the influential John of Gaunt.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first poet interred in Poets’ Corner, Geoffrey Chaucer, owed his 1400 burial in the Abbey (in front of St. Benedict’s Chapel) more to his position as Clerk of Works of the Palace of Westminster than to his fame as a writer.