by Robert Boenig (Editor), Andrew Taylor (Editor), Geoffrey Chaucer (Author)
A new glossary and helpful textual information make Chaucer's masterpiece more accessible in this second edition.
Back Jacket
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.
Author Biography
Robert Boenig is Professor of English at Texas A&M University.
Andrew Taylor is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.