The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Raffel, Burton, trans.
The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- New York: Modern Library, 2008.
- Physical Description
- xxxvii, 626 pp.
- Description
- Modern English translation of CT (based on Robinson's second edition), following Chaucer's prose and pentameter and modernizing his syntax. Raffel relies on off-rhymes, slant-rhymes, and blank verse to approximate Chaucer's couplets and other verse forms and uses occasional accent marks to encourage rhythm.
- Some names of the pilgrims are modernized (the Franklin is the "Landowner," the Manciple is the "Provisioner," etc.). Brief informational notes appear at the back of the book (pp. 599-626); an introduction by John Miles Foley (pp. xv-xxvii) emphasizes Chaucer's innovation and diversity.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Canterbury Tales--General