1. Chaucer did much more than just write The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was born to a wine merchant somewhere between 1340 and 1345 in London. He led an eventful life: He was a page to Elizabeth de ...

His great-grandfather was a tavern keeper in Ipswich, his father a wine merchant in London ... around the time he began to work on “The Canterbury Tales,” other duties were found for him ...

“The Merchant’s Tale” is written entirely ... “I could do a whole Canterbury Tales of south London geezers. But I wanted to make it more interesting, and I thought, no, I need to go ...

Tales Presented include Miller's Tale, Wife of Bath's Tale, Pardoner's Tale, Nun's Priest's Tale, Merchant's Tale, Reeve's Tale Not appropriate for families, kids under 16, or school groups.

With Meghna Chakrabarti Before “The Canterbury Tales,” Geoffrey Chaucer was ... Growing up in a wealthy merchant’s house on the banks of the Thames, watching the ships come in bringing ...

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in the late 14th Century, a time before cell phones and social media. So obviously the Wife of Bath, the Miller, the Friar, the Merchant, the Pardoner ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and influence of William Caxton, the merchant who brought ... such as Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and small liturgical 'books of hours'.