Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)
Auteur de Les Contes de Canterbury
A propos de l'auteur
Geoffrey Chaucer, one of England's greatest poets, was born in London about 1340, the son of a wine merchant and deputy to the king's butler and his wife Agnes. Not much is known of Chaucer's early life and education, other than he learned to read French, Latin, and Italian. His experiences as a afficher plus civil servant and diplomat are said to have developed his fascination with people and his knowledge of English life. In 1359-1360 Chaucer traveled with King Edward III's army to France during the Hundred Years' War and was captured in Ardennes. He returned to England after the Treaty of Bretigny when the King paid his ransom. In 1366 he married Philippa Roet, one of Queen Philippa's ladies, who gave him two sons and two daughters. Chaucer remained in royal service traveling to Flanders, Italy, and Spain. These travels would all have a great influence on his work. His early writing was influenced by the French tradition of courtly love poetry, and his later work by the Italians, especially Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Chaucer wrote in Middle English, the form of English used from 1100 to about 1485. He is given the designation of the first English poet to use rhymed couplets in iambic pentameter and to compose successfully in the vernacular. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a collection of humorous, bawdy, and poignant stories told by a group of fictional pilgrims traveling to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket. It is considered to be among the masterpieces of literature. His works also include The Book of the Duchess, inspired by the death of John Gaunt's first wife; House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and The Legend of Good Women. Troilus and Criseyde, adapted from a love story by Boccaccio, is one of his greatest poems apart from The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer died in London on October 25, 1400. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, in what is now called Poet's Corner. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: Illustration from Cassell's History of England - Century Edition - published circa 1902.
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Séries
Œuvres de Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales. With modern English versions of both works (1952) 375 exemplaires
The Canterbury tales; the Prologue and four tales, with the Book of the duchess and six lyrics, (1930) 134 exemplaires
Chaucer : the prologue, the knightes tale the nonne preestes tale from the Canterbury tales (1878) 88 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue (Norton Critical Editions) (2018) 43 exemplaires
Canterbury Quintet : The General Prologue & Four Tales : A Reader-Friendly Edition (2000) 42 exemplaires
The complete poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, now first put into modern English (1966) 29 exemplaires
Reading Chaucer: An Interlinear Translation of Selections in The Norton Antology of English Literature (2006) 27 exemplaires
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale with the Cook's Prologue and the Fragment of his Tale (1979) 18 exemplaires
A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume V: The Minor Poems, Part One (1982) 13 exemplaires
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume 3: The Canterbury Tales. From the text of Professor Skeat. (1910) 13 exemplaires
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. III: The House of Fame: The Legend of Good Women, The Treatise on the… (2008) 13 exemplaires
Five Canterbury Tales: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary Five Canterbury Tales (Dominoes, Level One) (2010) 12 exemplaires
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. I: Romaunt of the Rose, Minor Poems (in seven volumes) (2003) 12 exemplaires
Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. VII: Chaucerian and Other Pieces, Being A Supplement to the Complete Works of… (1897) 11 exemplaires
The General Prologue & The Physician's Tale: In Middle English & In Modern Verse Translation (2006) 10 exemplaires
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 1: From the Text of Professor Skeat (1906) 9 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spencer. Edited for Popular Perusal, with… (1874) — Auteur — 9 exemplaires
The Poems of Chaucer 9 exemplaires
The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, vol. 6, Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes (2013) 8 exemplaires
Chaucer 8 exemplaires
The prioresses tale, Sir Thopas, the Monkes tale, the Clerkes tale, the Squieres tale, from the Canterbury tales (2007) 8 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere… (1979) 7 exemplaires
The Tale of the Man of lawe;: The Pardoneres tale; the Second nonnes tale; the Chanouns yemannes tale, from the… (1879) 7 exemplaires
Reading & Training : Geoffrey Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales [book + sound recording] (2007) — Writer — 7 exemplaires
The Reeve's Tale 7 exemplaires
The Canon Yeoman's Prologue and Tale: From the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Selected Tales from Chaucer) (1965) 6 exemplaires
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation — Auteur — 6 exemplaires
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) (1988) 6 exemplaires
An ABC 5 exemplaires
Grolier Classics: Don Quixote, Plutarch's Lives, The Republic, Canterbury Tales (1955) 5 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd 5 exemplaires
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer with an Essay on His Language and Versification and an Introductory Discourse… 4 exemplaires
The Canterbury tales I & II 4 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales In Plain and Simple English (Translated) (Classics Retold) (2012) 4 exemplaires
The Programmed Classics (13 Volume Set (Canterbury Tales, Crime & Punishment, Complete works of William Shakespeare… (1968) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Annotated and Accented, With Illustrations of English Life in Chaucers Time (Classic… (1845) 4 exemplaires
A one-text print of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde from the Campsall ms. of Mr. Bacon Frank, copied for Henry v. when… 4 exemplaires
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the Modern Reader prepared & edited by Arthur Burrell (1929) 3 exemplaires
Chaucer : the prologue and three tales 3 exemplaires
Två Canterbury sägner 3 exemplaires
Geoffrey Chaucer TROILUS AND CRESSIDA Krapp Transl. 1932 Random House 3rd Print. (1385) 3 exemplaires
Die Canterbury-Erzählungen : mittelenglisch und deutsch 2 Fragment V - Fragment X der Canterbury-Erzählungen 3 exemplaires
The workes of our ancient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed. : To that which was done in the… 3 exemplaires
The Works 1532, With Supplementary Material from the Editions of 1542, 1561, 1598 and 1602 (1969) 3 exemplaires
El parlamento de las aves y otras visiones del sueno/ The parliament of the birds and other dream visions (Biblioteca… (2006) 3 exemplaires
The Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bath (Curriculum Policy and Research Series) (1992) 3 exemplaires
The riches of Chaucer : in which his impurities have been expunged, his spelling modernised, his rhythm accentuated and… 3 exemplaires
The Flower and the Leaf. One of 165 copies, all on vellum pages, with 3 hand-colored engraved plates and 85 hand… 2 exemplaires
Gentilesse {poem} 2 exemplaires
Truth {poem} 2 exemplaires
The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, : compared with the former editions, and many valuable MSS. out of which, three tales… 2 exemplaires
The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer / a selection edited with introduction and notes by Daniel Cook. 2 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales With Side-By-Side Modern English Translation (Classic Retold With Side-By-Side Translation Book 1) (2015) 2 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Popular Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer (24-Feb-2011) Paperback (1600) 2 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales [with] The Golden Cockerel Press, The Canterbury Tales and Eric Gill, An Essay By Peter Holliday (2010) 2 exemplaires
The Friar'S, Summoner'S, and Pardoner's Tales from the Canterbury Tales (Medieval and Renaissance Texts) (1975) 2 exemplaires
The Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript M.817: A Facsimile (The Facsimile Series of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer ; V.… (1986) 2 exemplaires
The Wild Duck By Ibsen, the Manual By Epictetus, the Canterbury Tales By Chaucer (Great Books Foundation, Set Five,… 2 exemplaires
Chaucer Criticism The Canterbury Tales 2 exemplaires
The Complaynt of Chaucer to His Purse {poem} 2 exemplaires
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 exemplaires
Poetical Works, Tyrwhite, London, '74 2 exemplaires
Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales 2 exemplaires
Chaucer's Troylus and Cryseyde (from the Harl. ms. 3943) compared with Boccaccio's Filostrato (1976) 2 exemplaires
Canterbury Tales, Dent, London '89 2 exemplaires
The Shipman's Tale 2 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, Selected and Ed. By Edwin Johnston Howard [and] Gordon Don (1947) 2 exemplaires
The story of Patient Grisilde 2 exemplaires
Poetical Works, 6 vols., Bell & Daldy, London, '66 2 exemplaires
The Wife of Bath: Complete, Authoritative Text With Biographical and Historical Contexts, Critical History, and Essays… (1996) 2 exemplaires
Canterbury Tales, Routledge, London, n.d. 2 exemplaires
Canterbury tales; Chaucer for present-day readers 2 exemplaires
The workes of our ancient ... poet Geffrey Chaucer. [Followed by] The storie of Thebes, by I. Lidgate 2 exemplaires
The Caterbury Tales 2 exemplaires
Selections from Chaucer, including his earlier and later verse and an example of his prose 2 exemplaires
Chaucer, Geoffrey ( Author )(The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition (Revised)) Paperback 1 exemplaire
Opowieści kanterberyjskie 1 exemplaire
Poems By Geoffrey Chaucer 1 exemplaire
Cuentos del molinero y el carpintero 1 exemplaire
A first Chaucer 1 exemplaire
The Pardoner's Tale. Edited by Carleton Brown 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales: A Selection 1 exemplaire
Prioresses Tale, Sire Thopas, the Monkes tale, the Clerkes tale, the Squieres tale, from the Canterbury tales 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
Canterbury Tales, A6 1 exemplaire
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Prologue. Edited with introduction and notes by Alfred W. Pollard 1 exemplaire
Chaucer's A.B.C. 1 exemplaire
Rare CANTERBURY TALES by Chaucer, Limited Editions Club, 2 Vols in Slipcase, 1934 [Hardcover] Geoffrey Chaucer 1 exemplaire
THE CANTERBURY TALES Easton Press 1 exemplaire
Chaucer's Dream 1 exemplaire
The Great Books of the Western World: Chaucer 1 exemplaire
The Assembly of Fowls 1 exemplaire
Persuasion 1 exemplaire
Gríshildur góða og fleiri sögur 1 exemplaire
Selection from the Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
Burlesque Plays and Poems 1 exemplaire
Basilisk Press Kelmscott Chaucer 1 exemplaire
Historias de Chaucer 1 exemplaire
CHAUCER The Pardoner's Tale 1 exemplaire
Poetical Works 1 exemplaire
The Canturbury Tales 1 exemplaire
Canterbury Tales: the Prologue and the Man of Law's Tale. Edited by A.J. Wyatt, With a Glossary by J. Malins 1 exemplaire
Great Books of the Western World - V.22 - Chaucer 1 exemplaire
The Count of Monte Cristo; The Canterbury Tales(3); Vanity Fair (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written) (1990) 1 exemplaire
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale 1 exemplaire
The Prioress's Tale 1 exemplaire
The Court of Love 1 exemplaire
The Prologue and Four Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Chaucer, Geoffrey [17 April 1996] 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales, [Oxford World's Classics 76] 1 exemplaire
The Miller's Tale 1 exemplaire
The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale 1 exemplaire
カンタベリ物語〈上〉 (ちくま文庫) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales (Xist Classics) 1 exemplaire
The General Prologue -- The Pardoner's Tale 1 exemplaire
The Ellesmere Chaucer 1 exemplaire
The Book of the Duchess 1 exemplaire
Canterburysägner I 1 exemplaire
Canterburysägner II 1 exemplaire
Prologue and Knightes Tale 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer Vol. IV 1 exemplaire
Beowulf / Chaucer Read by Kokeriz and Pope 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales I 1 exemplaire
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: The Romaunt of the Rose, and Minor Poems (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 exemplaire
Clásicos bruguera 1 exemplaire
The Monk's Tale 1 exemplaire
The Second Nun's Tale 1 exemplaire
Tale Of Sir Thopas 1 exemplaire
Tale Of Melibee (Tale Of Melibeus) 1 exemplaire
The Friar's Tale 1 exemplaire
The Cook's Tale 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales (Book on Tape) (The Nun's Priest's Tale/ The Knight's Tale, 2 Cassettes) (1983) 1 exemplaire
Introducing Chaucer: passages from Chaucer's writings chosen for beginners; with simplified spelling, and an… 1 exemplaire
Maestros Ingleses. TomoI . Cuentos de Canterbury. Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe. Nuevas aventuras de Robinson Crusoe.… 1 exemplaire
Canterbury tales: Selections (Great Books) 1 exemplaire
Miller's Tale -- Prologue 1 exemplaire
A selection from the Canterbury tales 1 exemplaire
Oxford Student Texts: 10 book pack (The Pardoners Tale / The Rape of Lock / The Duchess of Malfi / Keats Selected… (2010) 1 exemplaire
The Workes Of Ovr Ancient and learned English Poet, Geffrey Chavcer, newly Printed. To that which was done in the… 1 exemplaire
A comprehensive list of textual comparison between Blake's and Robinson's editions of The Canterbury tales (1995) 1 exemplaire
Chaucers Wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn {poem} 1 exemplaire
The Man of Law"s Tale, the Nun"s Priest"s Tale, the Squire"s Tale. [The King"s Classics] (1904) 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Text with Illustrative Notes, Volume 1 (2010) 1 exemplaire
Chaucer. The prologue & ... the Prioress's tale. - The nun's priest's tale. - The pardoner's tale 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales (Longman Classics, Stage 2) Simplified edition by Geoffrey Chaucer (1989) Paperback (1707) 1 exemplaire
The College Chaucer 1 exemplaire
Stories from Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
Boece 1 exemplaire
Short poems 1 exemplaire
Chaucer's Shorter Works (from "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer") 1 exemplaire
The Indispensable Chaucer 1 exemplaire
December 1 exemplaire
Major British Authors: Selected Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
The poetical works of Geoff. Chaucer in fourteen volumes. The miscellaneous pieces from Urry's edition 1721, the… 1 exemplaire
The prioress's tale, The tale of Sir Thopas 1 exemplaire
Canterbury Tales, Selections (audiobook) 1 exemplaire
geoffrey chaucer THE CANERBURY TALES A SELECTION 1 exemplaire
Specimen extracts from the nine known unprinted mss. of Chaucer's "Troilus" and from Caxton's and… 1 exemplaire
The manuscripts of Chaucer's Troilus,: With collotype facsimiles of the various handwritings, (Chaucer Society.… 1 exemplaire
Selections from Chaucer. The prologue. The nun's priest's tale. The pardoner's tale. The squire's tale 1 exemplaire
Chaucer: The prologue to the Canterbury tales and The Nun's priest's tale (A series of English texts) 1 exemplaire
Great Books 22 1 exemplaire
Canterbury tales, a selective version 1 exemplaire
Chaucer : contes de Cantorbéry : contes choisis, avec introduction grammaticale, notes et glossaire / par Joseph… 1 exemplaire
Chaucer's Canterbury tales: The squire's tale. Edited with introd. and notes by A.W. Pollard (2011) 1 exemplaire
Preamble and Tale of the Wife of Bath, The 1 exemplaire
Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrims 1 exemplaire
Rare TROILUS & CRESSIDA by Geoffrey Chaucer, Limited Editions Club in Slipcase, 1939 (1939) 1 exemplaire
حكايات كانتربري (سلسلة أفاق عالمية،#195) 1 exemplaire
The Works Now Newly Imprinted, Examine, ChKWks4X 1 exemplaire
The Wife Of Bath And Other Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
The clerk of Oxford's tale 1 exemplaire
The complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Volume IV 1 exemplaire
Canterburyn kertomuksia 1 exemplaire
Chaucer Complete Works 1 exemplaire
Canterbury Tales, Volume 2 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
The Works Now Newly Imprinted, Read, ChKWks3R 1 exemplaire
Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, volume II 1 exemplaire
The Poetical Works of Geoff. Chaucer: The Miscellaneous Pieces from Urry'S Edition 1721 : The Canterbury Tales from… (2012) 1 exemplaire
Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer, volume V 1 exemplaire
The Three Cuckolds. [Subtitle]: Out of Chaucer in modern prose renderingby Willis L. Parker. Privately issued for… (1932) 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales (2 cassettes) (The Prologue and the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale (Read in Middle English) (1978) 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. 2: To Which Are Added, an Essay on His Language and Versification, an… (2017) 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, Vol. 4: With an Essay Upon His Language and Versification, an Introductory Discourse,… (2015) 1 exemplaire
Troilus and Cressida and Chaucer 1 exemplaire
The Works Now Newly Imprinted, Browse, ChKWks2B 1 exemplaire
Stories from Chaucer told to the children by Janet Harvey Kelman. With pictures by W. Heath Robinson (Told to the… (1906) 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. Modernis'd by several hands [George Ogle, Thomas Betterton, John Dryden, Samuel… 1 exemplaire
Troilus and Cressida and The Canterbury tales 1 exemplaire
The Canterbury tales = Die Canterbury-Erzählungen : Mittelenglisch - Deutsch / Geoffrey Chaucer ; übersetzt… 1 exemplaire
English of the XIVth century: Chaucer's Prologue and Knightes tale (with grammatical and philological notes)… 1 exemplaire
El cuento del molinero = The Miller's tale / El cuento del alguacil = The summoner's tale 1 exemplaire
The Works Now Newly Imprinted, Thumbnails, ChKWks0T 1 exemplaire
The Works Now Newly Imprinted, Print, ChKWks1P 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Date de naissance
- s. 1343 [1343]
- Date de décès
- 1400-10-25 [1400]
- Lieu de sépulture
- Abadia de Westminster, Londres, Anglaterra, RU (Cantonada del Poeta)
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Royaume-Uni
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Royaume-Uni
- Lieu de naissance
- Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Lieu du décès
- Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Lieux de résidence
- Gatehouse, Aldgate, Londres, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
- Professions
- poeta
filòsof
burócrata
diplomàtic
funcionari
soldat (tout afficher 10)
escuder (Casa del Rei Edward III)
controlador (Aduanes i subvencions de la llana, la pell i el cuir tenyit)
traductor
Secretari (dels Treballs del Rei) - Relations
- Gower, John (amic)
- Prix et distinctions
- Caballer de la comarca (Kent)
Membres
Discussions
OT: Chaucer collection goes online à Fine Press Forum (Octobre 2023)
Folio Archives 341: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer – LIMITED EDITION 2011 à Folio Society Devotees (Septembre 2023)
Folio Archives 323: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 1990 à Folio Society Devotees (Juillet 2023)
LE Canterbury Tales à Folio Society Devotees (Juin 2023)
Kelmscott Chaucer - Easton Press vs. Bradford Exchange side by side comparison à Easton Press Collectors (Décembre 2022)
Kelmscott Chaucer à Fine Press Forum (Novembre 2022)
Critiques
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Selected An Interlinear… par Vincent F. Hopper
AR: 8.1
This is THE Chaucer book, it has everything plus helpful comments and annotations. I wish I had the time to read it front to back, but for now I only had the time to read some of the Tales and the Romaunt of the Rose.
Joseph Glaser's translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is wonderfully readable and entertaining. His translation makes the work easily accessible to modern readers providing a poetic rhythm and rhyme that hints of Chaucer's own poetry.
The Tales themselves range from the devout to the vulgarly humorous. Most delightful are the characters brought to life within the Tales.
The Tales themselves range from the devout to the vulgarly humorous. Most delightful are the characters brought to life within the Tales.
63. Troilus and Criseyde (Broadview Editions) by Geoffrey Chaucer
editors: James McMurrin Dean & Harriet Spiegel (2016)
OPD: 1385
format: 450-page oversized paperback with the original text and notes on the same page.
acquired: April 2022 read: (Aug 26) Sep 8 – Nov 19 time reading: 34:48, 4.6 mpp
rating: 5
genre/style: Middle English epic poetry theme: Chaucer
locations: Troy
about the author: Chaucer (~1342 – October 25, 1400) was an English poet and civil servant.
extended excerpts:
- Le Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (c1160), translated from French by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- Il Filostrato by Giovanni Boccaccio (c1340), translated from Italian by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson (1532). Translated by the editors (2016)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (7 ce), translated from Latin by Rolfe Humphries 1961
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) by Ovid (3 bce), translated by Rolfe Humphries 1957
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius (524), translated from Latin by Victor Watts (1969, 1999)
- On Love by Andreas Capellanus (c1190), translated from French by P.G. Walsh (1993)
- Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (c1230/c1275), translated from French by Charles Dahlberg (1971)
- Canzoniere Sonnet 132 by Francesco Petrarch (c1370), translated from Italian by A.S. Kline (2002)
- Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (c400), translated from Latin by William Harris Stahl (1952,1990,2009)
- excerpts from Lovesick in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries by Mary Wack (1990)
--- Viaticum by Constantine the African (1000s) - a Latin translation from Arabic of Zad Al Mussafir by Ibn Al Jazzar (900's)
--- Glosses on the Viaticum by Gerald of Berry (c1236), translated from Latin
--- Treatise on the Viaticum by Bona Fortuna (c1320), translated from Latin
Well. I can't possibly review this. What I can say is that this Broadview Press edition is fantastic. It has the original language with some spelling clarifications, along with notes. And Chaucer is readable enough today that that is enough information and allows the reader to enjoy the poetry, especially play of sound. I don't think Chaucer is readable without help (or extensive knowledge of the London dialect of Middle English).
Also, I really enjoyed this. It's a highlight of my year. I read it in the morning for 20 to 40 minutes and relished it, reading only six or so pages at a sitting. The plot is simple. The text is largely dialogue, one character speaking for pages at a time. I never felt in danger of getting lost and I never worried about breaking off at any point, or about pressing on until some conclusion.
Also, it's humor. I never felt the need to take anything seriously, even Chaucer's philosophical side points. This surprised me a little because everything I read about this led to me expect some deep Christian-era-friendly thoughts. This is supposed to be Chaucer's big serious effort at artistry and reputation. But this is funny, elegant and funny. And, also, it is not clean. The tone is always playful, as playful as the language.
I think the language and linguistic play is the main point here. I enjoyed this aspect so much.
The best character is Pandarus, the uncle of Criseyde and friend of Trojan prince, Troilus. He is a gamer through and through. The game is how to get his niece linked to the number one bachelor in Troy. I couldn't help imagining that Chaucer saw himself in Pandarus, but that's my impression. The character Troilus, meanwhile, is comically ridiculous. He's spineless and roiling in bed suffering from lovesickness. When Pandarus sets the world up for him, and the world is his in Book 3, he comes alive a little. He is thoroughly tragic in Book 4, and it's almost moving until we remember him in bed in back in the early books. Criseyde (maybe pronounced "Christ-eyed", but the pronunciation, based on the rhymes, seems ambiguous) is ultimately practical. She's a convincing lover, and I was left thinking I never got her right, that it was never clear where her true feelings lay. Somehow Pandarus makes the match, but he gets no benefit from it or its tragic end. The more Pandarus was present, the better Chaucer's writing was, in my opinion.
I wish I could conclude. One for the brave, thoroughly rewarding.
2023
https://www.librarything.com/topic/354226#8291135… (plus d'informations)
editors: James McMurrin Dean & Harriet Spiegel (2016)
OPD: 1385
format: 450-page oversized paperback with the original text and notes on the same page.
acquired: April 2022 read: (Aug 26) Sep 8 – Nov 19 time reading: 34:48, 4.6 mpp
rating: 5
genre/style: Middle English epic poetry theme: Chaucer
locations: Troy
about the author: Chaucer (~1342 – October 25, 1400) was an English poet and civil servant.
extended excerpts:
- Le Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (c1160), translated from French by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- Il Filostrato by Giovanni Boccaccio (c1340), translated from Italian by Robert K. Gordon (1934)
- The Testament of Cresseid by Robert Henryson (1532). Translated by the editors (2016)
- Metamorphoses by Ovid (7 ce), translated from Latin by Rolfe Humphries 1961
- Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love) by Ovid (3 bce), translated by Rolfe Humphries 1957
- The Consolation of Philosophy by Ancius Boethius (524), translated from Latin by Victor Watts (1969, 1999)
- On Love by Andreas Capellanus (c1190), translated from French by P.G. Walsh (1993)
- Romance of the Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun (c1230/c1275), translated from French by Charles Dahlberg (1971)
- Canzoniere Sonnet 132 by Francesco Petrarch (c1370), translated from Italian by A.S. Kline (2002)
- Commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio by Macrobius (c400), translated from Latin by William Harris Stahl (1952,1990,2009)
- excerpts from Lovesick in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and Its Commentaries by Mary Wack (1990)
--- Viaticum by Constantine the African (1000s) - a Latin translation from Arabic of Zad Al Mussafir by Ibn Al Jazzar (900's)
--- Glosses on the Viaticum by Gerald of Berry (c1236), translated from Latin
--- Treatise on the Viaticum by Bona Fortuna (c1320), translated from Latin
Well. I can't possibly review this. What I can say is that this Broadview Press edition is fantastic. It has the original language with some spelling clarifications, along with notes. And Chaucer is readable enough today that that is enough information and allows the reader to enjoy the poetry, especially play of sound. I don't think Chaucer is readable without help (or extensive knowledge of the London dialect of Middle English).
Also, I really enjoyed this. It's a highlight of my year. I read it in the morning for 20 to 40 minutes and relished it, reading only six or so pages at a sitting. The plot is simple. The text is largely dialogue, one character speaking for pages at a time. I never felt in danger of getting lost and I never worried about breaking off at any point, or about pressing on until some conclusion.
Also, it's humor. I never felt the need to take anything seriously, even Chaucer's philosophical side points. This surprised me a little because everything I read about this led to me expect some deep Christian-era-friendly thoughts. This is supposed to be Chaucer's big serious effort at artistry and reputation. But this is funny, elegant and funny. And, also, it is not clean. The tone is always playful, as playful as the language.
I think the language and linguistic play is the main point here. I enjoyed this aspect so much.
The best character is Pandarus, the uncle of Criseyde and friend of Trojan prince, Troilus. He is a gamer through and through. The game is how to get his niece linked to the number one bachelor in Troy. I couldn't help imagining that Chaucer saw himself in Pandarus, but that's my impression. The character Troilus, meanwhile, is comically ridiculous. He's spineless and roiling in bed suffering from lovesickness. When Pandarus sets the world up for him, and the world is his in Book 3, he comes alive a little. He is thoroughly tragic in Book 4, and it's almost moving until we remember him in bed in back in the early books. Criseyde (maybe pronounced "Christ-eyed", but the pronunciation, based on the rhymes, seems ambiguous) is ultimately practical. She's a convincing lover, and I was left thinking I never got her right, that it was never clear where her true feelings lay. Somehow Pandarus makes the match, but he gets no benefit from it or its tragic end. The more Pandarus was present, the better Chaucer's writing was, in my opinion.
I wish I could conclude. One for the brave, thoroughly rewarding.
2023
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