The Canterbury Tales | Prologue Summary & Analysis | Geoffrey Chaucer

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By the way, Chaucer was not just some brainiac poet who sat around composing verse all day. During the Hundred Years' War with France, he was a man of action, intrigue, and espionage -- a diplomatic courier and veritable medieval James Bond type intelligence agent and sleuth for K. Edward III -- with a diplomatic cover. He was also the BFF to K. Edward's no. 3 son, John of Gaunt, a medieval mover and shaker who happened to be: (i) the Duke of Lancaster, and future richest man in the kingdom, (ii) Chaucer's future brother-in-law; (iii) father of the Henry Bolingbroke, who afterwards became K. Henry IV (Part 1 and Part 2) (not to be confused with Henry VI, who actually did have 2 parts, though Shakespeare gave him 3), and (iv) uncle and regent of England to the young child-king Richard Ii.

Chaucer definitely led an interesting and full life working with the right sort of people -- even when he wasn't playing one-upmanship with Joe Boccaccio's "Decameron" (about friends making up stories while doing their 10-day bit to "flatten the curve" during the Black Death), or with cranking out more verse, or writing his scientific manual on how to use the astrolabe. Chaucer deserves to be remembered even if he'd never written a line of the Canterbury Tales.

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