Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales" in Modern Verse
- Author / Editor
- Glaser, Joseph, trans.
Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales" in Modern Verse
- Published
- Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett, 2005.
- Physical Description
- vi, 348 pp.
- Description
- Verse translation of CT with several tales abridged or excerpted (KnT, MLT, ClT, SqT, FranT, MkT) and several summarized (Mel, CYT, ManT, ParsT), based on the Riverside edition. Converts Chaucer's pentameter couplets into octosyllabic couplets to increase the pace but maintains the original verse forms elsewhere. The introduction emphasizes Chaucer's vitality and social realism, and occasional glosses and notes identify terms, quotations, and unfamiliar concepts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.