Chaucer & the Canterbury Tales (DVD)UPC Number: 881482317899
Actors: Terry Jones
Directors: Documentary
Format: Anamorphic, NTSC, Widescreen
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Arts Magic
Release date: March 31, 2009
Run time: 120 minutes
Product Description
Known as the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's literary eminence was achieved despite having lived in one of the most troubled centuries the world has known, and one particularly fraught for England. Chaucer may have suffered accordingly. It has been proposed that he was murdered!
He was born as England had entered into a war of conquest which was to last over 100 years, he survived the Black Death, and would witness the first revolutionary rising to challenge the status quo to date. He would be a soldier, a prisoner, a spy, a top civil servant, and a courtier. Throughout and despite all this, he would lead what was a brief golden age of English literature. Ultimately, he may have fallen foul of an English Inquisition.
Terry Jones, writer, director, actor and historian, presents his view of Chaucer and his society with wit, charm and passion. Not least, he vigorously supports his theory that the poet was to become in later life a highly controversial figure, leading to his assassination.
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