Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. 2d ed

Author / Editor
Boitani, Piero, and Jill Mann, eds.

Title
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.