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Letter: Chaucer festival

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000626
Author:Dr Peter Brown

Sir: Clive Fairweather (letter, 23 June) may be interested to know that, here at least, plans are afoot to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Geoffrey Chaucer's death in fit and seemly ways.

On 27 October the author of Chaucer's standard biography, Professor Derek Pearsall of the Universities of Harvard and York, will deliver an open lecture on Chaucer and the Canterbury pilgrimage.

Later in the autumn Blackwell are publishing their Companion to Chaucer, a collection of original essays edited at the University of Kent. Topics range from "authority" to "women" and include along the way (dare ...

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