Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. 2d ed
- Author / Editor
- Boitani, Piero, and Jill Mann, eds.
Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. 2d ed
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 317 pp.
- Description
- Revised version of the 1986 original, now with seventeen essays, five of which are new. Revised pieces are "The Social and Literary Scene in England" (Paul Strohm); "Chaucer's Italian Inheritance" (David Wallace); "Old Books Brought to New Life in Dreams: The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Birds" (Piero Boitani); "Telling the Story in Troilus and Criseyde" (Mark Lambert); "Chance and Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale" (Jill Mann); "The Canterbury Tales: Personal Drama or Experiments in Poetic Variety?" (C. David Benson); essays on romance, comedy, pathos, and exemplum and fable in CT by J. A. Burrow, Derek Pearsall, Robert Worth Frank, Jr., and A. C. Spearing, respectively; and a bibliography of further reading by Joerg O. Fichte. For the five new essays, search for Cambridge Companion to Chaucer under Alternative Title.
- Contributor
- Mann, Jill , ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.