FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Several previous generations of Geoffrey Chaucer’s family had been vintners and merchants in Ipswich. His family name is derived from the French chaucier, once thought to mean ‘shoemaker’, but now known to mean a maker of hose or leggings.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the reasons Chaucer is so important is that he made the decision to write in English and not French. In the centuries following the Norman invasion, French was the language spoken by those in power. The Canterbury Tales was one of the first major works in literature written in English.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ‘Canterbury Tales’ were notable for the fact that they were written in Middle English but did include clear indications of inspiration from Italian literature and French poetry style adopted and adapted by Chaucer.
Detailed explanation-4: -He introduced rhyme royal into English. Chaucer chose to focus on rhyme, which was unusual for an English language poet of his time, but not completely original. However, he was probably the first person to include rhyme royal in English language literature.
Detailed explanation-5: -His father John Chaucer (c. 1312–1366), was a vintner (a wine merchant), who had married Agnes Copton (d. 1381), perhaps in the early 1330s. It is likely that Geoffrey was born in Thames Street, in the Vintry ward (the wine merchants’ district) of London.