Canterbury Tale Nce2E PA

by Chaucer,Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9780393925876
• ISBN10: 0393925870
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested "Merchant's Tale" and the "Tale of Sir Thopas." "Sources and Backgrounds" are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand The Canterbury Tales in light of relevant medieval ideas and attitudes and inviting comparison between Chaucer's work and his sources. "Criticism" includes nine essays, four of them new to this edition, by leading Chaucerians, among them F. R. H. DuBoulay, E. Talbot Donaldson, Barbara Nolani, and Lee Patterson. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Chaucer's Language	xv
Selections from The Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue	3	(20)
The Knight's Tale	23	(48)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	71	(17)
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale	88	(11)
The Cook's Prologue and Tale	99	(3)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	102	(29)
The Friar's Prologue and Tale	131	(9)
The Summoner's Prologue and Tale	140	(14)
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale	154	(31)
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale	185	(27)
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale	212	(21)
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	233	(15)
The Prioress's Prologue and Tale	248	(7)
The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas	255	(6)
From The Prologue and Tale of Melibee	261	(8)
The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale	269	(16)
The Manciple's Prologue and Tale	285	(8)
From The Parson's Prologue and Tale	293	(13)
Chaucer's Retraction	306	(5)
Sources and Backgrounds
The General Prologue	311	(30)
From the Decameron, First Day, Introduction	312	(13)
Giovanni Boccaccio
From the Decameron, Tenth Day, Conclusion	325	(1)
Giovanni Boccaccio
[Human Life as a Pilgrimage]	326	(1)
St. Augustine
[On Pilgrimage]	327	(6)
Sir William Thorpe
[On the Estates]	333	(2)
Thomas Wimbledon
[On Monks]	335	(2)
William Langland
[On Monks]	337	(2)
John Gower
Wycliffite Estates Criticism	339	(2)
The Miller's Prologue and Tale	341	(3)
The Three Guests of Heile of Bersele	341	(3)
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale	344	(4)
The Miller and the Two Clerics	344	(4)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	348	(49)
From the Romance of the Rose	348	(9)
Jean de Meun
From The Golden Book on Marriage	357	(2)
Theophrastus
From Against Jovinian	359	(14)
St. Jerome
From The Letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against Marriage	373	(6)
Walter Map
From the Gospel According to St. John	379	(1)
From St. Paul to the Corinthians 1	380	(3)
From St. Paul to the Ephesians	383	(1)
From St. Paul to Timothy 1	384	(1)
From St. Paul to Timothy 2	385	(1)
The Tale of Florent	386	(11)
John Gower
The Friar's Prologue and Tale	397	(2)
A Greedy Bailiff	397	(2)
Robert Rypon
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale	399	(23)
From the Decameron, Tenth Day, Tenth Tale	399	(8)
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Story of Griselda	407	(10)
Francis Petrarch
[Two Letters to Boccaccio]	417	(3)
Francis Petrarch
From Le Menagier de Paris	420	(2)
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale	422	(2)
The Woman and the Pear-Tree	422	(2)
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale	424	(7)
From the Decameron, Tenth Day, Fifth Tale	424	(4)
Giovanni Boccaccio
[On Love and Marriage]	428	(3)
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	431	(8)
From The Romance of the Rose	431	(5)
Jean de Meun
The Hermit, Death, and the Robbers	436	(2)
Thomas of Cantimpre From Liber de Apibus	438	(1)
The Prioress's Prologue and Tale	439	(12)
The Story of the Alma Redemptoris Mater	439	(6)
A Miracle of Our Lady	445	(3)
Alma Redemptoris Mater	448	(1)
[On Christian Mistreatment of Jews]	449	(2)
Pope Gregory X
The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas	451	(4)
From Guy of Warwick	451	(4)
The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale	455	(11)
From Aesop's Fables	455	(1)
William Caxton
The Cock and the Fox	456	(1)
Marie de France
From Le Roman de Renart, Branch 2	457	(4)
[On Dreams]	461	(2)
Macrobius
Geoffrey of Vinsauf • [Lament on the Death of Richard I]	463	(1)
[On the Cock]	464	(2)
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
The Manciple's Prologue and Tale	466	(121)
[The Story of Phoebus and Coronis]	466	(2)
Ovid
The Tale of Phoebus and Cornide	468	(5)
John Gower
Criticism
The Historical Chaucer	473	(19)
F. R. H. Du Boulay
Chaucer's Prologue to Pilgrimage: The Two Voices	492	(11)
Arthur W. Hoffman
Chaucer the Pilgrim	503	(68)
E. Talbot Donaldson
``A Poet Ther Was'': Chaucer's Voices in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales	571
Barbara Nolan
[The Dramatic Principle of the Canterbury Tales]	534	(5)
George Lyman Kittredge
[The Marriage Group]	539	(7)
George Lyman Kittredge
From The Parson's Tale and the Quitting of the Canterbury Tales	546	(10)
Lee Patterson
From Social Chaucer: ``A Mixed Commonwealth of Style''	556	(10)
Paul Strohm
Eunuch Hermeneutics	566	(21)
Carolyn Dinshaw
A Chronology	587	(2)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Selected Bibliography	589