Chaucer [electronic resource] : Second Edition.

Originally published in 1981, this second edition built on the success of the first which had established itself as a standard introduction to the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. It shows Chaucer not only in the context of his own age, but, more important, as a writer and a man who is still vivid to us...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Hussey, S. S., 1925-2004
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Milton : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge library editions. Chaucer.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Dedication; Foreword; I: Poet and public; II: Dreams and their dreamers; The Book of the Duchess; The House of Fame; The Parliament of Fowls; The Legend of Good Women; III: Troilus and Criseyde; The characters; Tragedy, Fortune and Boethius; IV: The Canterbury Tales I; Plan and General Prologue; Romance: The Knight's Tale and The Franklin's Tale; The Knight's Tale; The Franklin's Tale; V: The Canterbury Tales II; Fabliau: The Miller's Tale and The Merchant's Tale; The Miller's Tale
  • The Merchant's TaleThe Saints' Legends and The Clerk's Tale; The Prioress's Tale; The Man of Law's Tale; The Clerk's Tale; 'Homilies and Morality and Devotion'; The Pardoner's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale; VI: Chaucer and his contemporaries; Abbreviations used in the notes; Notes; Select bibliography; Index