Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Prologue: Commentary, Interlinear Text, Glossary.
- Author / Editor
- Lamb, Sidney, ed.
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Prologue: Commentary, Interlinear Text, Glossary.
- Published
- Lincoln, Neb.: Cliffs Notes, 1966.
- Physical Description
- 54 pp.; b&w illus.
- Series
- Complete Study Edition.
- Description
- Introductory study edition of GP, with Middle English text, interlinear translation, and side-bar commentary and glosses, preceded by introductions to Chaucer's Life and World (pp. 6-9) and to the backgrounds, language, phonology, and versification of GP (pp. 10-13). The b&w illustrations include reproductions of W. H. Hooper's woodcut versions of the Ellesmere drawings, as well as line sketches of medieval scenes and objects.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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