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The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Broadview Canterbury Tales is an edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle English text that is closer to what Chaucers scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, actually wrote than that in any other modern edition. Unlike most editions, which draw on a number of manuscripts to recapture Chaucers original intention, this edition preserves the text as it was found in one influential manuscript. A sampling of facsimile pages from the original manuscript is also included, along with a selection of other works that give the reader a rich sense of the cultural, political, and literary worlds in which Chaucer lived.

The second edition includes a new Middle English glossary, a timeline of Chaucers life and times, and detailed page headers showing the fragment and line numbers to assist readers in finding a specific section of the poem.

The Canterbury Tales Reviews

I can already tell you that this textunlike any other Chaucer textmakes it easy for students to read and understand Chaucer. It has certainly made my job easier! Mary Flowers Braswell, University of Alabama at Birmingham

This attractive, readable edition features Chaucers Middle English text, marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, and illustrative facsimile pages. Especially helpful are the appended background documents, historical and literary, which provide key contexts for the interpretation of Chaucers work. A useful bibliography concludes the volume. Highly recommended. Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame

Britains greatest medieval poem by its greatest non-dramatic poet: this new edition will be attractive to students, scholars, and general readers alike. Facsimiles of individual leaves from the Ellesmere Manuscript have been scattered throughout the volume to give us a real sense of what it would have been like to open The Canterbury Tales for the first time in the years immediately following Chaucers death. Larry Scanlon, Rutgers University

With its meticulously edited text, generous glosses and notes, abundant selections from relevant medieval sources, and attractive reproductions of the sumptuous pages of the Ellesmere Manuscript, the Broadview Canterbury Tales will become the obvious choice for teachers, students, and general readers alike. John T. Sebastian, Loyola University New Orleans

This is the best edition of the Tales Ive found to date. John Marlin, College of Saint Elizabeth

About Geoffrey Chaucer

Robert Boenig is Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

Andrew Taylor is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

  • Chaucers Life and Times
    The Construction of The Canterbury Tales
    Chaucers English
    Chaucers Versification
    The Reception of Chaucers Poetry
    Close Reading and Interpretation
    Editorial Principles

CHAUCER TIMELINE

THE CANTERBURY TALES

Fragment I

  • The General Prologue
    The Knights Tale
    The Millers Prologue
    The Millers Tale
    The Reeves Prologue
    The Reeves Tale
    The Cooks Prologue
    The Cooks Tale

Fragment II

  • Introduction to the Man of Laws Tale
    The Prologue of the Man of Laws Tale
    The Man of Laws Tale

Fragment III

  • The Wife of Baths Prologue
    The Wife of Baths Tale
    The Friars Prologue
    The Friars Tale
    The Summoners Prologue
    The Summoners Tale

Fragment IV

  • The Clerks Prologue
    The Clerks Tale
    The Merchants Prologue
    The Merchants Tale

Fragment V

  • The Squires Prologue
    The Squires Tale
    The Franklins Prologue
    The Franklins Tale

Fragment VI

  • The Physicians Tale
    The Pardoners Prologue
    The Pardoners Tale

Fragment VII

  • The Shipmans Tale
    The Prioresss Prologue
    The Prioresss Tale
    The Prologue to Chaucers Tale of Sir Thopas
    Chaucers Tale of Sir Thopas
    The Prologue to Chaucers Tale of Melibee
    Chaucers Tale of Melibee
    The Monks Prologue
    The Monks Tale
    The Nuns Priests Prologue
    The Nuns Priests Tale

Fragment VIII

  • The Second Nuns Prologue
    The Second Nuns Tale
    The Canons Yeomans Prologue
    The Canons Yeomans Tale

Fragment IX

  • The Manciples Prologue
    The Manciples Tale

Fragment X

  • The Parsons Prologue
    The Parsonrsquo;s Tale
    Chaucers Retraction

Appendix: Background Documents

  1. Saint Jerome, Against Jovinian (400)
  2. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (524)
  3. William Thorpes Testimony on Pilgrimages (1407)
  4. Benedict of Canterbury, The Miracles of St. Thomas Becket (1170s)
  5. The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards (1395)
  6. Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose (c. 1275)
    1. False Seeming
    2. The Old Woman
  8. William Langland, Piers Plowman (1360s80s)
    1. The Fair Field of Folk
    2. The Friar
  10. Guillaume de Machaut, The Judgment of the King of Navarre (1351)
    • The Plague
  12. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1353)
    1. The Black Death
    2. Patient Griselda
  14. Jean Froissart, Chronicles (1400)
    1. The Black Death, Flagellants and Jews (1349)
    2. The Campaign of 1359
    3. The Peasants Revolt in England (1381)
    4. The Election of Henry IV
  16. The Anonimalle Chronicle (139699)
    • The Rising is Suppressed
  18. A Model Indulgence (1300)
  19. Rudolph of Schlettstadt, The Host and Libels against the Jews (1303)
  20. The Remedy against the Troubles of Temptation(late fourteenth century)
    • An Exemplum about Despair
  22. The Tale of Beryn (141020)
    • The Pilgrims Arrive at Canterbury and Visit the Shrine

A BASIC CHAUCER GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTUAL SOURCE LIST

Additional information

NGR9781554811069
9781554811069
1554811066
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
New
Paperback
Broadview Press Ltd
2012-04-30
550
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