The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
The Canterbury Tales

Published
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 2d rev. ed., 1996.

Physical Description
420 pp.; 2d ed., xiii, 439.

Series
Oxford Guides to Chaucer.

Description
The Oxford Guides offer summaries of what is known about Chaucer's work and include "fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding." Cooper includes commentary on all aspects of CT as a whole (with critical analyses of each tale) and surveys "literary responses" to CT during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The second edition updates the discussions critical issues--especially social and historical matters--and provides more extensive bibliographies.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.