General Prologue [to] the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Hodgson, Phyllis, ed.

Title
General Prologue [to] the Canterbury Tales

Published
London: Athlone, 1969.

Physical Description
220 pp.; b&w illus.

Description
Textbook edition of GP with end-of-text notes, glossary, and dictionary of proper names, accompanied by an Introduction that addresses the role of GP in CT, as well as its art and "Inheritance." Also includes several appendixes: "The Poet and His Works"; "Chaucer's English"; "Versification"; and "Man, Astronomy, Astrology, and Medicine." The illustrations derive from the Ellesmere manuscript.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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