FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Fairy-Tale Story book the Lioness
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A scientific treatise on the Astrolabe
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A model of a microscope
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A moral story-The Lion and the Mouse
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A scientific treatise on the Telescope
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chaucer’s treatise is addressed to ‘little Lewis’, a ten-year-old child who may or may not have been Chaucer’s own son. The first part of the treatise first describes all the parts of an astrolabe and how they fit together.
Detailed explanation-2: -Description: Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) is most famous for writing The Canterbury Tales, but relatively few know that he also wrote the oldest surviving technical manual in English, The Treatise on the Astrolabe, which describes how to use that astronomical instrument.
Detailed explanation-3: -The countess was French, so French poets such as Guillaume de Machaut and Eustache Deschamps provided an early inspiration, and Chaucer’s earliest poems, The Book of the Duchess and The Parliament of Birds, rest on a heavy French base.
Detailed explanation-4: -Period: The period between 1343 and 1450 is known as the age of Chaucer. The age of Chaucer is the first significant period in the Literary history of England. It marks the beginning of a new era, new language and new literature.