A Companion to Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"

Description: Intended as a "do-it-yourself course" for first-time readers of CT, the Companion is organized in a series of separate chapters devoted to GP and to most tales, although the Links, CkT and SqT, Thop, Mel, MkT, and ParsT are consigned to appendices.; The discussions include basic descriptive and critical information, though a brief annotated bibliography, suggested for "Further Reading," accompanies each section.; Key passages are given in Middle English with modern translation.; Also includes brief sections on Chaucer's world and his language.