The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. 2d rev. ed., 1996. 3d rev. ed, 2023.
- Physical Description
- 420 pp.; 2d ed., xiii, 439; 3d ed., xiii, 484.
- 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 and third editions update the discussions of critical issues--especially social, historical, and theoretical matters--and revise the bibliographies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.