The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Author / Editor
- Winny, James, ed.
The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965
- Physical Description
- v, 138 pp.
- Series
- Selected Tales from Chaucer.
- Description
- A textbook edition of GP, with text (following Robinson's 1957 edition), end-of-text notes and glossary, introduction, and commentary on Chaucer's language and the arrangement of the Tales. The Introduction (pp.1-42) focuses on tale-teller relations, the characterizations of the pilgrims, narrator, and Host, Chaucer's satire, and thematic concerns.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
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