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The Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer and Jill Mann, editor.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Language:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the greatest and most ambitious works in English literature, the Canterbury Tales depicts a story-telling competition between pilgrims drawn from all ranks of society. The tales are as various as the pilgrims themselves, encompassing comedy, pathos, tragedy and cynicism. The Miller and the Reeve express their mutual antagonism in a pair of comic stories combining sex and trickery; in 'The Shipman's Tale' a wife sells her favours to a monk. Others draw on courtly romance and fantasy: the Knight tells of rivals competing for the love of the same woman and the Squire describes a princess who can speak to birds. In these twenty-four tales, Chaucer displays a dazzling range of literary styles and conjures up a wonderfully vivid picture of medieval life.
- In her introduction to this original-spelling edition, Jill Mann discusses the recurring themes that link these richly varied narratives, and the central role of Chaucer as both narrator and pilgrim. This edition also includes on-page glosses, a chronology, further reading, a section on 'Chaucer's Language', freshly researched explanatory notes and a full glossary.
- Contents:
- Chaucer's Language liii
- Fragment I Group A
- The General Prologue 3
- The Knight's Tale 35
- The Miller's Prologue and Tale 114
- The Reeve's Prologue and Tale 142
- The Cook's Prologue and Tale 159
- Fragment II Group B
- The Man of Law's Prologue, Tale [and Epilogue] 164
- Fragment III Group D
- The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale 211
- The Friar's Prologue and Tale 255
- The Summoner's Prologue and Tale 270
- Fragment IV Group E
- The Clerk's Prologue and Tale 293
- The Merchant's Prologue, Tale and Epilogue 339
- Fragment V Group F
- The Squire's Prologue and Tale 382
- The Squire-Franklin Link, the Franklin's Prologue and Tale 406
- Fragment VI Group C
- The Physician's Tale 439
- The Physician-Pardoner Link, the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale 449
- Fragment VII Group B
- The Shipman's Tale 474
- The Shipman-Prioress Link, the Prioress's Prologue and Tale 489
- The Prioress-Sir Thopas Link and Sir Thopas 500
- The Thopas-Melibee Link and the Tale of Melibee 509
- The Monk's Prologue and Tale 562
- The Nun's Priest's Prologue, Tale [and Epilogue] 596
- Fragment VIII Group G
- The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale 622
- The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale 643
- Fragment IX Group H
- The Manciple's Prologue and Tale 677
- Fragment X Group I
- The Parson's Prologue and Tale 691
- Chaucer's Retractions 782.
- ISBN:
- 9780140422344
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