The freshest and most challenging work on Chaucer to have appeared in many years. Chauncey Wood, McMaster University Saving the appearances of the Ellesmere Manuscript order by means of a bold and brilliant hypothesis about the composition of the Canterbury Tales, Dolores Frese offers Chaucerians some of the most original and persuasive readings of the poem to appear in recent memory; in particular, her demonstration of Chaucer s intertextual strategies with the Pardoner s Tale and the Roman de la Rose are most impressive and will probably inaugurate new and vigorous debate about Chaucer s...