The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions / Edition 1

by John M Bowers

Overview

When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete masterpiece. The pieces presented here date from the fifteenth century and survive in at least one manuscript collection of Chaucer's tales: John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, The Cook's Tale, Spurious Links, and The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn. These pieces of Chaucerian apocrypha have been collected into one student-friendly edition, including introductions, notes, glosses, and a glossary to accommodate students of all levels of experience in Middle English.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781879288232
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	01/28/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

John Bowers is Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He specializes in Chaucer and medieval literature.

Table of Contents

Preface General Introduction John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes The Ploughman's Tale The Cook's Tale Spurious Links The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn Glossary