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"The first study to go beyond simple number symbolism and systematically embrace not only thematic elements but the construction of the entire manuscript in a fashion that credibly explains a number of puzzling elements ranging from the serial arrangement of the poems to the placement of decorated initials in the manuscript. . . . probably the most interesting, challenging, and provocative study of the Pearl poems written in the last two decades."--Julian Wasserman, Loyola University of New Orleans
Edward Condren examines the manuscript of the Gawain-Pearl Poet in the...

"A remarkably accessible account of individual tales, tellers, and the poem-as-a-whole, with a voice of such authority and appreciative command that it could be recommended to any undergraduate or graduate student. . . . To anyone who doubted the survival of practical criticism in the current sea of theory, this book will come as a tonic."--Dolores Warwick Frese, University of Notre Dame

Arguing from the evidence of extant manuscripts, Edward Condren describes the overall design of the Canterbury Tales--one of the most enigmatic puzzles in Chaucer studies--as a structural...