The Yale Companion to Chaucer

Author / Editor
Lerer, Seth, ed.

Title
The Yale Companion to Chaucer

Published
New Haven, Conn., and London : Yale University Press, 2006.

Physical Description
ix, 420 pp.

Description
An introduction and ten essays by various authors, with several appendices (chronology, a guide to textual studies, order and pattern within CT, and maps), plus a bibliography and an index. Aimed at an American audience, the volume seeks to "combine interpretation with information." The introduction by Lerer (pp. 1-28) considers the "linguistic condition" and the nature of book production in Chaucer's time. For individual essays, search for Yale Companion to Chaucer under Alternative Title.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.