The Canterbury Tales - Second Edition

Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Boenig, Andrew Taylor

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781770483187
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Poetry
• Index: Literature

The Broadview Canterbury Tales is an edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle English text that is closer to what Chaucer's scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, actually wrote than that in any other modern edition. Unlike most editions, which draw on a number of manuscripts to recapture Chaucer's original intention, this edition preserves the text as it was found in one influential manuscript. A sampling of facsimile pages from the original manuscript is also included, along with a selection of other works that give the reader a rich sense of the cultural, political, and literary worlds in which Chaucer lived.

The second edition includes a new Middle English glossary, a timeline of Chaucer's life and times, and detailed page headers showing the fragment and line numbers to assist readers in finding a specific section of the poem.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chaucer Timeline
• FRAGMENT I
• Fragment II
• Fragment III
• Fragment IV
• Fragment V
• Fragment VI
• Fragment VII
• Fragment VIII
• Fragment IX
• Fragment X
• Appendix: Background Documents
• A Basic Chaucer Glossary
• Bibliography
• Textual Source List