From pilgrims and proto-feminists to tragic princes and dream visions, Chaucer’s finest texts forever changed how English ...

“Whiles I am a beggar, I will rail and say there is no sin but to be rich; and being rich, my virtue then shall be to say there is no vice but beggary.” “With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and ...

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I ...