Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Thompson, N. S.
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Jay Parini, ed. British Writers Classics. Vol. 1 (New York: Scribner, 2002), pp. 41-63. Electronic edition, 2003.
- Description
- Summary description of CT, commenting (in the Ellesmere order) on each of the fragments, source materials of the tales, and the ways that Chaucer combines traditional and innovative concerns. The CT is a "work held together by contrast." Includes a bibliography of basic resources for study of CT. Includes modern translation of quotations in Middle English.
- Contributor
- Parini, Jay, ed.
- Alternative Title
- British Writers Classics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General