A Book of Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Burrow, J. A., and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds.
A Book of Middle English
- Published
- Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1992. 2d ed. 1996. 3rd ed. 2005.
- Physical Description
- vii, 303 pp.; xii, 373 pp.; viii, 419 pp.
- Description
- An introduction to Middle English language, designed as a textbook with discussions of history, phonology, lexis, grammar, syntax, and meter. Includes a reader of fourteen (non-Chaucerian) texts, with brief notes and glossary.
- The 2d rev. ed includes PF, RvT, and PrT, with notes, glossary, and brief bibliographies and introductions. The 3rd, rev. ed. adds TC 2.1-497. The 3rd ed. is available as an electronic book [2011].
- Contributor
- Turville-Petre, Thorlac.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- House of Fame.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations