As March winds down into April later this week, the calendar turns to the annual day celebrated by pranksters and jokers ...

The life of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1340-1400), often labeled “the father of English poetry,” ought to be an open book: He is mentioned almost 500 times in contemporary records, far more than ...

April Fools’ Day dates back hundreds of years and is a time for people to play pranks on each other every April 1. But where did it begin and why do we observe it? Here’s everything you need to know.

He was born between 1340 and 1343, son of John Chaucer, a London vintner, and Agnes (Copton). Geoffrey began his career in the service of Lionel, third son of King Edward III, and held various offices ...

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Geoffrey Chaucer joins the Yebeebies gang for a ruder than usual story. Chaucer was one of the first people to write down some of the naughtier words that we use today.

Terry Jones (of Monty Python) gives a narrative of the life of and society around Geoffrey Chaucer. Geoffrey Chaucer's life to middle age, He survived the Black Death as a child, and become ...

The over life-size white marble bust of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey in 1884, on a pillar near to the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer. It is by the ...