Geoffrey Chaucer
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
This delightful collection includes the General Prologue plus three of the most popular tales: "The Knight's Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," and "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale." Recast in modern English verse that captures the lively spirit of the originals.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Multiple
Description
"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
Original and modern versions in parallel columns.
Contains both Chaucer's epic poem, detailing tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war during the Siege of Troy, and Canterbury Tales, a frame story of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
This edition provides the general information on Chaucer's life, language, and works that one needs for a first reading of Chaucer, and difficult words and constructions are glossed on the pages. The Appendix contains the materials, including the extensive notes and glossary, for a more thorough understanding of Chaucer's works.
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Presents an annotated selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, "The Canterbury Tales," a series of stories narrated by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Includes the general prologue, sources and analogues, and critical essays.
