ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
One of his famous poem was “The Canterbury Tales”
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1340s – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1345–1400) was enormously popular in medieval England, with over 90 copies in existence from the 1400s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Geoffey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400, is a long poem concerning a group of thirty pilgrims on their way from Southwark, in south London, to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury.

Detailed explanation-4: -There is no consensus as to whether or not a complete version of the Tales exists, and also no consensus regarding Chaucer’s intended order of the stories. Textual and manuscript clues have been adduced to support the two most popular modern methods of ordering the tales.

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