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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 Summary

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.

The Canterbury Tales Reviews

"A delight . . . [Raffel's translation] provides more opportunities to savor the counterpoint of Chaucer's earthy humor against passages of piercingly beautiful lyric poetry."-Kirkus Reviews

"Masterly . . . This new translation beckons us to make our own pilgrimage back to the very wellsprings of literature in our language." -Billy Collins

"The Canterbury Tales has remained popular for seven centuries. It is the most approachable masterpiece of the medieval world, and Mr. Raffel's translation makes the stories even more inviting."-Wall Street Journal

About Geoffrey Chaucer

Born in London to a wine merchant, Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400) became a royal servant and travelled as a diplomat to France, Spain and Italy. As well as being famed for his translations, his own work includes Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess and The Legend of Good Women.
Jill Mann has been Professor Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge University, and most recently Notre Dame Professor of English. She is the author Feminizing Chaucer (2002), and co-editor (with Piero Boitani) of The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (2nd edn. 2003).


Jill Mann has been Professor Medieval & Renaissance English at Cambridge University, and most recently she was Notre Dame Professor of English. She is the author Feminizing Chaucer (2002), and co-editor (with Piero Boitani) of The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (2nd edn. 2003).

Table of Contents

The Canterbury TalesAcknowledgments
Editor's Note
Chronolgy
Introduction
Further Reading
Chaucer's Language
A Note on the Tect
Abbreviations of the Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales
Fragment I (Group A)

The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Prologue and Tale
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale
The Cook's Prologue and Tale

Fragment II (Group B)

The Man of Law's Prologue, Tale and Epilogue

Fragment III (Group D)

The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
The Friar's Prologue and Tale
The Summoner's Prologue and Tale

Fragment IV (Group E)

The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
The Merchant's Prologue, Tale and Epilogue

Fragment V (Group F)


The Squire's Prologue and Tale
The Squire-Franklin Link, the Franklin's Prologue and Tale

Fragment VI (Group C)

The Physician's Tale
The Physicia-Pardoner Link, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Fragment VII (Group B)

The Shipman's Tale
The Shipman-Prioress Link, The Prioress's Prologue and Tale
The Prioress-Sir Thopas Link and Sir Thopas
The Thopas-Melibee Link and the Tale of Melibee
The Monk's Prologue and Tale
The Nun's Priest's Prologue, Tale and Epilogue

Fragment VIII (Group G)

The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale
The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale

Fragment IX (Group H)

The Manciple's Prologue and Tale

Fragment X (Group I)

The Parson's Prologue and Tale
Chaucer's Retractions

Abbrviated References
Notes
Glossary

Additional information

GOR001891025
9780140422344
014042234X
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2005-04-07
1328
N/A
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