If you are Chaucer, anyway!

Holy crap, that is so cool. I will buy that so hard.

(Now, is this more of a sign of the cultural significance of Chaucer Hath a Blog than the fact that it's a Yuletide fandom?)

I've always liked this one -- I think the narrator's self-comparison to a fish in sauce pretty much sums up Chaucer's dorktacular self-presentation in two lines.

To Rosemounde
Geoffrey ChaucerMadame, ye ben of al beaute shryne ( Read more... )

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Today, as eny fule no, is the feast of Sts. Crispin and Crispianus, and that, as Shakespeare has reminded us in unforgettable manner, is the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt. So here, for your instruction and delight, is Olivier performing That Speech:

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Those of you who dislike Olivier can go over to sadcypress and watch Kenneth Branagh's version ( ( Read more... )

In the last round, the Knight trounced the Summoner, the Wife of Bath hung on to beat the Miller, and the Pardoner just squeaked by despite a valiant late-round effort by Chaucer and Sir Thopas. And now it's time for the final round, a three-way showdown between the three remaining pilgrims. This is it, friends: we've taken the fruyt, lat the chaf ( Read more... )

Well, another day, another round of voting, and we're beginning to get to the point where the choices get really tough. It should come as no surprise that the Knight and the Miller advance to the semifinals, in a contest that's had a strong showing by Fragment I from the start. The Wife of Bath and the Pardoner are also unsurprising contenders. ( Read more... )

Well, after a vigorous round of voting, the field of pilgrims has been narrowed. Most of the contests were no contest at all, except in the field of Steadfast Women tale-tellers, in which the Second Nun hangs on by the skin of her teeth to beat the Man of Law (who complains that he'd have had a much better story if that good-for-nothing story-hog ( Read more... )

So the last time I had an LJ-poll tournament it was the Mentally Scarring PSA Tournament, which was, as the title suggests, mentally scarring, and which proved to us all that Emma Thompson is a total badass.

I thought that next time I had a long-running poll, it would be less scarring. This one was inspired by a conversation I had at a_t_rain's journal ( Read more... )

There has been a sad lack of Middle English poetry this month, so here is some Chaucer for you to enjoy.

(Also, I kind of want a swerd of castigacioun.)

Lak of Stedfastnesse
Geoffrey ChaucerSomtyme this world was so stedfast and stable ( Read more... )

Since I was linking someone to this post recently, and since it is almost time for Kalamazoo again, I have made, while not working, a set of icons based on Chaucer's wonderful collection of pickup lines for people going to Kzoo. Credit where it's due: the textures I used for these are by damnicons, and the lines are Chaucer's. ;) All are, of course, freely ( Read more... )