Chaucer and Shakespeare are two different people from two different eras writing in (more or less) different genres.
I really really really really think you can talk about Chaucer without mentioning Shakespeare.
This isn't the freaking Bible, where everything in the Old Testament anticipates and is redeemed by the New Testament.
It's just history. No one is anticipating anyone else. Chaucer is not borrowing from Shakespeare; he can't.
Chaucer wrote. He wrote beautiful works, important works. But he is his own person.
Leave freakin' Shakey out of it.
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