Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.
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Praise for the first edition: "Marked by wit, learning, intelligence, and that rarest of critical virtues, good judgement...this is now the first book on The Canterbury Tales to consult after reading the text itself."--Studies in the Age of Chaucer.
"Cooper's guide is a more powerful book than any previous aid or introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It presents the lively and generous mind of a serious scholar and a sensitive reader."--Notes and Queries.
"A substantial work...with something of the proportions and production quality of a reference volume....This is a major book with many virtues...[and] much to offer its reader"--Review of English Studies.
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Helen Cooper is Fellow in English at University College, Oxford.
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This review is from: Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
This and Elaine Tuttle Hansen's _Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender_ are, I think, the two single best books of Chaucerian criticism out there. This book provides everything you need to know about the CT: the sources and influences of the Canterbury Tales, the themes and issues for each teller and his/her tale, and the dominant interpretations out there. Plus there's the Cooper-type insight into the tales you just come to expect from her work. This one's a classic.
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Although the General Prologue was probably written fairly early in the course of Chaucer's work on the Tales, it was not necessarily the first item to be composed, nor need it all have written at one time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more distant analogues, flaming bath, tavern sins, interlaced romance, other fabliaux, pilgrim audience, penitential treatise, estates satire, loathly lady, rhyme royal, preceding tale, estates literature, verbal variants, rhetorical elaboration, noble tale, claris mulieribus, individual tales, religious tales, magic gifts, only pilgrim, fifth husband Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Knight's Tale, Wife of Bath, Nun's Priest, Man of Law, General Prologue, Miller's Tale, Second Nun, Squire's Tale, Clerk's Tale, Middle Ages, Franklin's Tale, Pardoner's Tale, Merchant's Tale, Canon's Yeoman, Harry Bailly, Prioress's Tale, Reeve's Tale, Middle English, Shipman's Tale, Wife's Prologue, Friar's Tale, Summoner's Tale, Cook's Tale, Vincent of Beauvais, New York New!
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Although the General Prologue was probably written fairly early in the course of Chaucer's work on the Tales, it was not necessarily the first item to be composed, nor need it all have written at one time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
more distant analogues, flaming bath, tavern sins, interlaced romance, other fabliaux, pilgrim audience, penitential treatise, estates satire, loathly lady, rhyme royal, preceding tale, estates literature, verbal variants, rhetorical elaboration, noble tale, claris mulieribus, individual tales, religious tales, magic gifts, only pilgrim, fifth husband Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Knight's Tale, Wife of Bath, Nun's Priest, Man of Law, General Prologue, Miller's Tale, Second Nun, Squire's Tale, Clerk's Tale, Middle Ages, Franklin's Tale, Pardoner's Tale, Merchant's Tale, Canon's Yeoman, Harry Bailly, Prioress's Tale, Reeve's Tale, Middle English, Shipman's Tale, Wife's Prologue, Friar's Tale, Summoner's Tale, Cook's Tale, Vincent of Beauvais, New York New!
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- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on 99 pages
- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on 98 pages
- The Wife of Bath (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism) by Geoffrey Chaucer on 63 pages
- The General Prologue: Part One A and Part One B (Variorum Chaucer) (Pt.1A) by Geoffrey Chaucer on 46 pages
- The Legend Of Good Women by Geoffrey Chaucer on 14 pages
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- A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by Corinne Saunders on page 175, page 189, and page 196
- Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales by Laura C. Lambdin on page 25, page 298, and Back Matter
- A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) by Corinne Saunders on page 175, page 189, and page 196
- The Supernatural in Short Fiction of the Americas: The Other World in the New World (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) by Dana Del George on page 25, and Back Matter
- Chaucer's Jobs (New Middle Ages) by David R. Carlson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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