In between his Chaucer studies he's built a booming career as an expert on entertainment-industry law.
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Every serious work of the time, including Geoffrey Chaucer's legendary "Canterbury Tales, " employed this script.
"We have fewer details about Jane Austen's life than we do about Shakespeare or Chaucer, " he says.
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As McCrum notes, Chaucer is difficult for contemporary readers, but Shakespeare, two centuries later, is much more intelligible.
And this official competition selection takes in literary giants such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley and Hardy.
Jamie Lee Burbank, 22, of Chaucer Street, Nottingham was found guilty of wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm on Wednesday.
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Jade Anderson, 14, from Greater Manchester, was found alone with five dogs at a property on Chaucer Grove, Atherton, Wigan, on 26 March.
Jade Anderson, 14, was found alone with five dogs at a house she was visiting in Chaucer Grove, Atherton, Wigan, on 26 March.
Jade Anderson was found alone with five of the animals at a house she was visiting in Chaucer Grove, Atherton, Wigan, on Tuesday afternoon.
They inspired Geoffrey Chaucer, whose "Canterbury Tales" contain five fabliaux, and Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron" draws on them as well, says Yale University French professor R.
They have been sited at the authentic French chateau-styled Yates building, the 1874 Victoria Building with its Italianesque style, the former NatWest Bank building and the Chaucer buildings.
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Think of fiction's best drawn, most entertaining characters - Chaucer's Pardoner, Shakespeare's Iago, every third man and woman in Jane Austen, every other man and woman in Dickens - and the H-word is there, satisfyingly to be unmasked.
The English of Geoffrey Chaucer (born in the 14th century), for example, is incomprehensible to modern laymen, whereas that of William Shakespeare (born in the 16th) is not only comprehensible but held by some to be a model.
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