The volumes in the Oxford Guides to Chaucer series aim to provide readers at every level with new interpretations and ideas, with up-to-date information on such matters as dating and sources, and with analyses of thematic issues, structure, style, rhetoric and generic relations. This particular volume on The Canterbury Tales offers new interpretations and ideas both for the whole work and for each individual tale. It also includes a survey of literary responses to the tales over the two centuries following Chaucer's death.