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The Yale Companion to Chaucer

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This book is meant to include new content about Chaucer's major works by a variety of scholars, ostensibly new-ish scholars.

For me, it was assigned for a class, and it was very readable and accessible - easy to understand and a good resource for getting a handle on what people like to say about Chaucer and the topics that they focus on - on the role of literature, the roles of different characters, etc.

This companion is divided by the works of the scholars themselves - it would be hard to use it as a detailed section by section explanation of the content of the works. It functions best as a set of analyses that circle around the various themes of the different works.