Geoffrey Chaucer — "And trewely she hadde a greet talent / To laughe and for to carpe in compaignye."
And trewely she hadde a greet talent / To laughe and for to carpe in compaignye.
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About Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)
English poet, civil servant, and the father of English literature; The Canterbury Tales (~1387-1400) is the founding text of English-language storytelling. Closely associated with Giovanni Boccaccio (his Italian predecessor; the Decameron preceded the Canterbury Tales by ~40 years). For an intellectual contrast, see John Wycliffe, English theologian and Lollard reform-movement leader — Wycliffe and Chaucer were near-contemporaries in the same English Christian world — Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Pardoner are the canonical literary defense of fleshly humanity against the Lollard moral austerity that would later become English Puritanism. Earthy storytelling vs proto-Protestant moralism.
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General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, describing the Wife of Bath's boisterous and talkative nature. 'Greet talent to laughe and for to carpe' is an unusual way to describe her extroversion.
Date: c. 1387-1400
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