778. [1/2] Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (with Dad)
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
The main author everybody knows from middle english time is geoffrey chaucer. Chaucer was satirist, which is a great traditionin british English writing. And of courser, his canterbury tales are famous. He describes things in great detail and he describes country life. But this isn't around the same time as sir gawaine and the green knight but they're very different. This guy is up in the midlands,. using a different dialect, and it's got a different field to it. It's bleaker. Soer, it's actually a bit of a horror story.
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