The Norton Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Lawton, David, ed., with prose texts ed. Jennifer Arch and dream poems ed. Kathryn Lynch.
The Norton Chaucer.
- Published
- New York: Norton, 2019.
- Physical Description
- xii, 1197 pp.; b&w illus.
- Description
- A comprehensive edition of all of Chaucer's works (without Rom or Equat), with bottom-of-page notes, side-bar glosses, headnotes to the individual works and each part of CT, and a glossary. The text is based on manuscript witnesses and on E. Talbot Donaldson's edition of 1958, modifying Donaldson’s system of normalizing spelling and redoing its text and apparatus. The "General Introduction" includes discussion of Chaucer's life, language, and reception, with emphasis on Chaucer as a linguistic and cultural translator and on the importance of his metropolitan and courtly contexts. Headnotes to individual works focus on thematic issues and on sources and analogues. An e-book version features audio readings from the works and an interactive tutorial on reading Chaucer.
- Contributor
- Arch, Jennifer, ed.
Lynch, Kathryn, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations