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      30 GREAT MYTHS ABOUT CHAUCER

      Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg

      This edition first published 2020

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       Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

      Names: Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine), author. | Trigg, Stephanie, author.

      Title: 30 great myths about Chaucer / Thomas A. Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg.

      Other titles: Thirty great myths about Chaucer

      Description: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019051841 (print) | LCCN 2019051842 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119194057 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119194064 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119194071 (epub)

      Subjects: LCSH: Chaucer, Geoffrey, ‐1400. | Chaucer, Geoffrey, ‐1400–Criticism and interpretation.

      Classification: LCC PR1905 .P68 2020 (print) | LCC PR1905 (ebook) | DDC 821/.1–dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019051841 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019051842

      Cover Design: Wiley

      Cover Image: Harl 4866 f.88 Portrait of Chaucer, from the poem ‘Regement of Princes’ by Thomas Hoccleve (c.1368‐1426) (vellum), English School, (15th century)/British Library, London, UK/Bridgeman Images

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      We would like to express our gratitude to Helen Hickey and Anne McKendry, who have provided their customary efficient and thoughtful assistance with the research that sits behind this book, and who helped us with careful formatting and sub‐editing. Thanks, too, to our editor at Wiley‐Blackwell, Richard Samson, to Pilar Wyman who prepared the index, and to the anonymous readers who helped us shape the book’s structure.

      Most of all, of course, we would like to thank each other.

      INTRODUCTION: MYTHICAL CHAUCER

      A roly‐poly, slightly chubby poet gets up early in the morning to go and pick daisies, or falls asleep while reading a book and dreams about gardens, forests, birds and beautiful women. He makes a pilgrimage to Canterbury with a bunch of rogues and sinners he describes in affectionate and loving terms. He narrates and translates other people’s stories, but he is a wildly original poet, and more or less single‐handedly

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