Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales: Literary Touchstone Classic - Revised Edition
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 1608439356
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Peter AckroydPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101155639
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141966793
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text)
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerFive Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: OXFORD
ISBN: 9780194247580
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
The Canterbury Tales, The New Translation
Author: Gerald J. DavisPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365188019
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.
The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue (Third International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393655121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
“This book has been more helpful to the students—both the better ones and the lesser ones—than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching.” —RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale. • Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. • Sources and analogues arranged by tale. • Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition. • A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Charles Abraham OwenPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859913348
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from the large number of single tales and small collections that circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies at the University of Conneticut.