The Canterbury Tales

ISBN-13: 9781554811069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 550 str.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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A new glossary and helpful textual information make Chaucer's masterpiece more accessible in this second edition.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

• Chaucer’s Life and Times
  The Construction of The Canterbury Tales
  Chaucer’s English
  Chaucer’s Versification
  The Reception of Chaucer’s Poetry
  Close Reading and Interpretation
  Editorial Principles

CHAUCER TIMELINE

THE CANTERBURY TALES

Fragment I

• The General Prologue
  The Knight’s Tale
  The Miller’s Prologue
  The Miller’s Tale
  The Reeve’s Prologue
  The Reeve’s Tale
  The Cook’s Prologue
  The Cook’s Tale

Fragment II

• Introduction to the Man of Law’s Tale
  The Prologue of the Man of Law’s Tale
  The Man of Law’s Tale

Fragment III

• The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
  The Wife of Bath’s Tale
  The Friar’s Prologue
  The Friar’s Tale
  The Summoner’s Prologue
  The Summoner’s Tale

Fragment IV

• The Clerk’s Prologue
  The Clerk’s Tale
  The Merchant’s Prologue
  The Merchant’s Tale

Fragment V

• The Squire’s Prologue
  The Squire’s Tale
  The Franklin’s Prologue
  The Franklin’s Tale

Fragment VI

• The Physician’s Tale
  The Pardoner’s Prologue
  The Pardoner’s Tale

Fragment VII

• The Shipman’s Tale
  The Prioress’s Prologue
  The Prioress’s Tale
  The Prologue to Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Thopas
  Chaucer’s Tale of Sir Thopas
  The Prologue to Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee
  Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee
  The Monk’s Prologue
  The Monk’s Tale
  The Nun’s Priest’s Prologue
  The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Fragment VIII

• The Second Nun’s Prologue
  The Second Nun’s Tale
  The Canon’s Yeoman’s Prologue
  The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale

Fragment IX

• The Manciple’s Prologue
  The Manciple’s Tale

Fragment X

• The Parson’s Prologue
  The Parson’rsquo;s Tale
  Chaucer’s Retraction

Appendix: Background Documents

1. Saint Jerome, Against Jovinian (400)
2. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (524)
3. William Thorpe’s Testimony on Pilgrimages (1407)
4. Benedict of Canterbury, The Miracles of St. Thomas Becket (1170s)
5. The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards (1395)
6. Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose (c. 1275)
1. False Seeming
2. The Old Woman
7. William Langland, Piers Plowman (1360s–80s)
1. The Fair Field of Folk
2. The Friar
8. Guillaume de Machaut, The Judgment of the King of Navarre (1351)
• The Plague
9. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron (1353)
1. The Black Death
2. Patient Griselda
10. Jean Froissart, Chronicles (1400)
1. The Black Death, Flagellants and Jews (1349)
2. The Campaign of 1359
3. The Peasants’ Revolt in England (1381)
4. The Election of Henry IV
11. The Anonimalle Chronicle (1396–99)
• The Rising is Suppressed
12. A Model Indulgence (1300)
13. Rudolph of Schlettstadt, The Host and Libels against the Jews (1303)
14. The Remedy against the Troubles of Temptation(late fourteenth century)
• An Exemplum about Despair
15. The Tale of Beryn (1410–20)
• The Pilgrims Arrive at Canterbury and Visit the Shrine

A BASIC CHAUCER GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TEXTUAL SOURCE LIST