The Canterbury Tales
Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions
Edited by John M. Bowers
Paperback (Published)
(September 1992)
ISBN: 9781879288232
7.01 x 10 inches
Price: $19.95
In stock
When Chaucer died in 1400, the Canterbury Tales, was unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps. Chaucerian apocrypha collected into one student-friendly edition, including introductions, notes, glosses, and a glossary to accommodate students of all levels of experience in Middle English.
When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete masterpiece. The pieces presented here date from the fifteenth century and survive in at least one manuscript collection of Chaucer’s tales: John Lydgate’s Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman’s Tale, The Cook’s Tale, Spurious Links, and The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant’s Tale of Beryn. These pieces of Chaucerian apocrypha have been collected into one student-friendly edition, including introductions, notes, glosses, and a glossary to accommodate students of all levels of experience in Middle English.
Preface General Introduction John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes The Ploughman's Tale The Cook's Tale Spurious Links The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn Glossary, Preface
General Introduction
- Edited by John M. Bowers
Other Titles in this Series
The Middle English “Castle of Love” and Robert Grosseteste’s Anglo-Norman Original, “Le chasteau d’amour”
Guillaume de Machaut, The Complete Poetry and Music, Volume 1
The Debate Poems: Le Jugement dou Roy de Behaigne, Le Jugement dou Roy de Navarre, Le Lay de Plour
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