The Canterbury Tales：Fifteen Tales and the General Prologue

ThisNortonCriticalEditionincludesthemostadmiredofChaucer’sCanterburyTales.Eachispresentedintheoriginallanguage,withnormalizedspellingandsubstantialannotationsformodernreaders.AmongthenewaddedtotheSecondEditionarethemuch-requested"Merchant’sTale"andthe"TaleofSirThopas.""SourcesandBackgrounds"areincludedfortheGeneralPrologueandformostofthetales,enablingstudentstounderstandTheCanterburyTalesinlightofrelevantmedievalideasandattitudesandinvitingcomparisonbetweenChaucer’sworkandhissources."Criticism"includesnineessays,fourofthemnewtothisedition,byleadingChaucerians,amongthemF.R.H.DuBoulay,E.TalbotDonaldson,BarbaraNolani,andLeePatterson.AChronologyandSelectedBibliographyarealsoincluded