Gefforey Chaucer summary

Chaucer was rather grandly the father of English literature and also the prime shaper of English language.Chaucer has been credited with a series of first .G.L.Kittredge identified Troilus and Criseyde as the first novel,in the modern sense. When reading Chaucer's works one is struck by sense of great variety.As on the 3rd page it gets into details about The Canterbury Tales were near the end of the Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer associates the little tragedy with a long line of classical poets and then asks for help to write some comedie.The Canterbury Tales is thus a comedy not because of of its comic characters and humorous stories several tragic in tone structure but because its overall structure is comic.