The Canterbury tales : seventeen tales and the general prologue : authoritative text, sources and backgrounds, criticism
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Preface --

Chaucer's language --

Selections from The Canterbury Tales. The General Prologue ; The Knight's Tale ; The Miller's Prologue and Tale ; The Reeve's Prologue and Tale ; The Cook's Prologue and Tale ; The Man of Law's Introduction, Prologue, and Tale ; The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale ; The Friar's Prologue and Tale ; The Summoner's Prologue and Tale ; The Clerk's Prologue and Tale ; The Merchant's Prologue and Tale ; The Franklin's Prologue and Tale ; The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale ; The Prioress's Prologue and Tale ; The Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas ; From The Prologue and Tale of Melibee ; The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale ; The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale ; The Manciple's Prologue and Tale ; From The Parson's Prologue and Tale ; Chaucer's Retraction --

Sources and Backgrounds. The general prologue ; From The Decameron, Day 1, Introduction / Giovanni Boccaccio ; From The Decameron, Day 10, Conclusion / Giovanni Boccaccio ; [Human Life as a Pilgrimage] / St. Augustine ; [On Pilgrimage] / Sir William Thorpe ; [On the Estates] / Thomas Wimbledon ; [On Monks] / William Langland ; [On Monks] / John Gower ; Wycliffite Estates Criticism ; The Miller's Prologue And Tale ; The Three Guests of Heile of Bersele ; The Reeve's Prologue And Tale ; The Miller and the Two Clerics ; The Wife Of Bath's Prologue And Tale ; From The Romance of the Rose / Jean de Meun ; From The Golden Book on Marriage / Theophrastus ; From Against Jovinian / St. Jerome ; From The Letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against Marriage / Walter Map ; From the Gospel According to St. John ; From St. Paul to the Corinthians 1 ; From St. Paul to the Ephesians ; From St. Paul to Timothy 1 ; From St. Paul to Timothy 2 ; The Tale of Florent / John Gower ; The Friar's Prologue And Tale ; A Greedy Bailiff / Robert Rypon ; The Clerk's Prologue And Tale ; From The Decameron, Day 10, Story 10 / Giovanni Boccaccio ; The Story of Griselda ; [Two Letters to Boccaccio] / Francis Petrarch ; From Le Menagier de Paris ; The Merchant's Prologue And Tale ; The Woman and the Pear-Tree ; The Franklin's Prologue And Tale ; From The Decameron, Day 10, Story 5 and Story 6 / Giovanni Boccaccio ; [On Love and Marriage] / Bartholomaeus Anglicus ; The Pardoner's Prologue And Tale ; From The Romance of the Rose / Jean de Meun ; The Hermit, Death, and the Robbers ; From Liber de Apibus / Thomas of Cantimpre ; The Prioress's Prologue And Tale ; The Story of the Alma Redemptoris Mater ; A Miracle of Our Lady ; Alma Redemptoris Mater ; [On Christian Mistreatment of Jews] / Pope Gregory X ; The Prologue And Tale Of Sir Thopas ; From Guy of Warwick ; The Nun's Priest's Prologue And Tale ; From Aesop's Fables / William Caxton ; The Cock and the Fox / Marie de France ; From Le Roman de Renart, Branch 2 ; [On Dreams] / Macrobius ; [Lament on the Death of Richard I] / Geoffrey of Vinsauf ; [On the Cock] / Bartholomaeus Anglicus ; The Manciple's Prologue And Tale ; [The Story of Phoebus and Coronis] / Ovid ; The Tale of Phoebus and Cornide / John Gower --

Criticism. From Social Hierarchy and Social Change / Maurice Keen ; An Introduction to Chaucer and His Poem ; The Reception of the Canterbury Tales / Winthrop Wetherbee ; Chaucer the Pilgrim / E. Talbot Donaldson ; Chaucer's Prologue to Pilgrimage: The Two Voices / Arthur W. Hoffman ; From Suffering Woman, Suffering God [On the Man of Law's Tale and the Clerk's Tale] / Jill Mann ; From Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale / Susan Schibanoff ; "Fulfild of Fairye": The Social Meaning of Fantasy in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale / Louise O. [Aranye] Fradenburgiam Caxton ; From The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale / Helen Cooper ; Eunuch Hermeneutics [On the Pardoner's Tale] / Carolyn Dinshaw ; Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress's Tale / Stephen Spector ; From A Mixed Commonwealth of Style / Paul Strohm ; From The Parson's Tale and the Quitting of the Canterbury Tales / Lee Patterson

Geoffrey Chaucer : a chronology

A short glossary.