The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by Robert Boenig & Andrew Taylor

Author:: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Published:: Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2012.
Edition:: Second edition.
Physical Description:: 510 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Boenig, Robert, 1948- and Taylor, Andrew, 1958-

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Broadview editions

Language Note:

The tales are presented in their original Middle English, with preliminary and other critical texts and annotations in English.

Summary:

"The Broadview Canterbury Tales is an edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle English text that is closer to what Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, actually wrote than that in any other modern edition. Unlike most editions, which draw on a number of manuscripts to recapture Chaucer's original intention, this edition preserves the text as it was found in one influential manuscript. A sampling of facsimile pages from the original manuscript is also included, along with a selection of other works that give the reader a rich sense of the cultural, political, and literary worlds in which Chaucer lived. The second edition includes a new Middle English glossary, a timeline of Chaucer's life and times, and detailed page headers showing the fragment and line numbers to assist readers in finding a specific section of the poem."--Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

9781554811069
1554811066

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" ... edition of the complete tales based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript ... A sampling of facsimile pages from the original manuscript is also included, along with a selection of other works that give the reader a rich sense of the cultural, political, and literary worlds in which Chaucer lived"--Page 4 of cover.
"The second edition includes a new Middle English glossary, a timeline of Chaucer's life and times, and detailed page headers showing the fragment and line numbers to assist readers in finding a specific section of the poem"--Page 4 of cover.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

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