The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue

This Norton Critical Edition includes:• The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prolog ...

This Norton Critical Edition includes:• The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale. • Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. • Sources and analogues arranged by tale. • Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition. • A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.