General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Mack, Peter, and Chris Walton, eds.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Physical Description
- vi, 185 pp.
- Series
- Oxford Student Texts.
- Description
- Textbook edition of GP. Includes glosses and discursive notes (at the back of the book) and discussion of approaches to the text: sources and analogues, characterization, assessment of theme and topic, and analysis of poetic technique. Also includes basic contextual materials (black-and-white illustrations of pilgrims, excerpted analogues, etc.), a chronology and discussion of language, and suggestions for classroom activities and discussion. Revised version of 1994 publication.
- Contributor
- Walton, Chris, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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