The New Murrey and Blue blog

I’m afraid that I’m not a lover of Shakespeare’s works. I think the blame for this can be laid squarely at the feet of ‘O’ English Literature. I was bored rigid. But when it came to the much earlier Geoffrey Chaucer, which I didn’t read until after leaving school, I loved every word. Maybe if I’d had Chaucer inflicted on me at school I’d have given him the thumbs-down. Hmm, I doubt it.

Chaucer moved in the highest royal circles of late 14th-century England, a period that fascinates me, so that alone works in his favour. I certainly have no time for the very Tudor Shakespeare!

Anyway, here’s a little article that tells you half  a dozen facts about him.