The Selected Canterbury Tales A New Verse Translation

by Chaucer, Geoffrey; Fisher, Sheila; Fisher, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780393079456
• ISBN10: 0393079457
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-25
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

In the tradition of Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and Marie Borroff's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Sheila Fisher's The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear while inviting readers to the Middle English original on facing pages. Renowned for its astute character portraits (from the chivalrous Knight to the assertive Wife of Bath), timeless themes, realistic representations of fourteenth-century English life, and sheer energy of storytelling, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales should be available to everyone, in all the richness of its meaning and meter. Choosing fourteen tales that range from the high style of courtly romance to raunchy ramblings and examples of religious zeal gone astray, Fisher does justice to Chaucer's masterwork in a way sure to attract a new audience of modern readers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction and Background	p. xv
A Chaucerian Lexicon	p. xlvii
The General Prologue	p. 3
The Knight's Tale	p. 61
The Miller's Prologue a Tale	p. 195
The Reeve's Prologue and Tale	p. 243
The Cook's Prologue and Tale	p. 275
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	p. 285
The Clerk's Prologue and Tale	p. 367
The Merchant's Prologue and Tale	p. 457
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale	p. 535
The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale	p. 591
The Prioress's Prologue and Tale	p. 637
The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas and The Prologue to the Tale of Melibee	p. 657
The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale	p. 681
The Parson's Prologue and Chaucer's Retraction	p. 727
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 737
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