WOMAN CHARACTERS IN “THE CANTERBURY TALES” BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Azada GASIMOVA
Qafqaz University
azada_gasimova@yahoo.com
Geoffrey Chaucer is known as a great English poet, author, philosopher, and also an astronomer in Medieval Period.
He has had an active political career as well, and worked as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Geoffrey Chaucer is
considered the father of English literature. He has had a prominent and important role in English literature of Medieval
Period. He is known as the first poet who established English as a major language in literature when the dominant literary
languages were French and Latin.
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