The Riverside Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Benson, Larry D., gen. ed.
The Riverside Chaucer
- Published
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
- Physical Description
- 3rd ed.
- xlvii, 1327 pp.
- Description
- A compilation by thirty-three Chaucerians (based on "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," edited by F. N. Robinson [2d ed., 1957]), this new edition updates, expands, and revises its predecessor while generally preserving its sequence. Entirely rewritten and updated, the introduction includes the following: "Life," by Martin M. Crow and Virginia E. Leland; "The Canon and Chronology of Chaucer's Works,' by Larry D. Benson; "Language and Versification," by Norman Davis; and "The Texts," by Larry D. Benson.
- Introductions to Chaucer's works are provided by Larry D. Benson, CT; Colin Wilcockson, BD; John M. Fyler, HF; Larry Barney, TC; M. C. E. Shaner, LGW; Lalia Z. Gross, the Short Poems; John Reidy, Astr; Larry D. Benson, Rom.
- Explanatory and textual notes are provided by Larry D. Benson,Vincent J. DiMarco, Florence H. Ridley, Susan H. Cavanaugh, Janette Richardson, M. Teresa Tavormina, Warren S. Ginsberg,Patricia J. Eberle, R. T. Lenaghan, J. A. Burrow, V. J. Scattergood, C. David Benson, Christine Ryan Hilary, Siegfried Wenzel, Douglas Gray, Joanne Rice, Sharon Hiltz DeLong, John Reidy, Colin Wuilcockson, John M. Fyler, Charles Muscatine, Ralph Hanna III, Traugott Lawler, Stephen A. Barney, M. C. E. Shaner, A. S. G. Edwards, Lalia Z. Gross, and Alfred David.
- The glossary was prepared by Larry D. Benson and Patricia Eberle. Other contributors include Robert A. Pratt, Margaret Jennings, and Ardath McKee.
- For an electronic version of the text of this edition, search for Edmonds, David. under Author/Editor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.