The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Penguin

ISBN: 9780140424386

Category: Poetry

Page: 504

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'Now as I've drunk a draught of corn-ripe ale, By God it stands to reason I can strike On some good story that you all will like' In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories and low farce. A story-telling competition within a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight's account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Rich and diverse, The Canterbury tales offers us an unrivalled glimpse into the life and mind of medieval England. Nevill Coghill's masterly and vivid modern English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain all the vigour and poetry of Chaucer's fourteenth-century Middle English.
The Canterbury Tales
Language: en
Pages: 482

The Canterbury Tales

Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, David Wright
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Provides a modern verse translation of the story of a group of pilgrims who pass the time during their journey by telling each other tales
Chaucer
Language: en
Pages: 256

Chaucer

Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer, Steve Ellis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-06-11 - Publisher: Routledge

This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally
The Canterbury Tales - Second Edition
Language: en
Pages: 550

The Canterbury Tales - Second Edition

Authors: Geoffrey Chaucer
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-16 - Publisher: Broadview Press

The Broadview Canterbury Tales is an edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle English text that is closer to what Chaucer’s scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, actually wrote than that in any other modern edition. Unlike most editions, which
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Language: en
Pages: 206

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Authors: Gail Ashton
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-04-01 - Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

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Authors: Jerome Mandel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

As he examines the seven multitale fragments of the Canterbury Tales, Jerome Mandel reveals Chaucer's working concepts of artistic arrangement. Each chapter focuses upon the principles underlying Chaucer's construction of the fragments and shows how carefully Chaucer integrated all the parts into an artistic whole. In building the fragments, Chaucer