Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 318
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The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Xist Publishing
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 963
ISBN-13: 1681959089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Robert M. Correale
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780859918282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This edition ... contains the sources and major analogues of Chaucer's works (some re-edited from manuscripts closer to his own copies) together with discoveries from the past half-century, some of which have not previously appeared together in print. Special features in this new enterprise include a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, and modern English translations of all non-English texts; chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source material".--BOOKJACKET.
De nuptiis
Author: Ralph Hanna
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780820319209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe three medieval texts that make up Jankyn's Book of Wikked Wyves have formed a vital part of Chaucerian research for more than half a century. Integrated here for the first time, these texts now form a cornerstone volume of the Chaucer Library series. Near the end of her prologue, Chaucer's Wife of Bath tells how her fifth husband, Jankyn, a clerk of Oxford, taunted her by reading from a collection of antifeminist tracts. The contents of Jankyn's book include three texts that enjoyed wide distribution in the later Middle Ages: Walter Map's "Dissuasio Valerii," Theophrastus's "De Nuptiis," and Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum." The first two are reproduced in their entirety in this volume, with selections from the third. The editors examine Jankyn's book from many angles, including the extensive manuscript sources from which it may be reconstructed, background information for its literary appreciation, and Chaucer's use of the materials. The publication of this volume, the fourth in the Chaucer Library, represents a major event for medievalists.
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-09-29
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0141966793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-05-19
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1316615456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSix-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Author: Caroline D. Eckhardt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780802025920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-03-27
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 039334178X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFisher's work 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.
The Canterbury Tales, The New Translation
Author: Gerald J. Davis
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2016-06-18
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1365188019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.
Chaucer's Dream Poetry
Author: Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0859910725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.
