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Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background,
discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to
the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play
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Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning
full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer
series explores the complete text of The Merchant's Prologue and
Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and
illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury
pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of
unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School
Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping
students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense
of irony and love of controversy.
An engaging classroom playscript. Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
is dead! In a dramatic attempt to bring him back to life, four
medieval alchemists invite a group of Chaucer's best-known pilgrims
- the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Pardoner, the Nun's Priest, and
the Miller - to tell their Canterbury Tales. New, innovative
activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for
Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework
objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening,
close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a
springboard for personal writing.
A knight, a monk, a merchant, a summoner, and a wife all walk into
an inn, and realize they are in the company of many others who
intend to make the same pilgrimage to Canterbury. As a group of
English people all gather at the Tabard inn, they learn that they
will be travelling together. Usually divided by their differing
social classes, professions, and beliefs, the group are united by
their pilgrimage to Canterbury, where they'll receive blessings
from a Christian martyr. Upon this realization, the host of the inn
proposes a competition: whoever can tell the best story on the
journey to Canterbury wins a lavish dinner. All enamored by the
promise of a good meal, each member takes a turn telling a story.
With tales of true love, chivalry, crime, infidelity, piety,
dishonesty, and adventure, the stories of the group humor, inspire,
offend, and entertain. As the stories continue, members of the
pilgrimage party interrupt, praise, scold, and even fight other
members, enlightening them with lessons and new perspectives as
they journey to complete their pilgrimage. With feuds, jokes, love
affairs, and moral allegories, The Canterbury Tales treat audiences
to a dynamic journey crafted with exquisite prose and elegant
poetry. Originally published around 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer's The
Canterbury Tales have since inspired many adaptations of both its
plot and narrative form. Using satire, allegory, and wit, The
Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories that explores various
genres and literary purposes, creating an incredibly inclusive
narrative. This edition of The Canterbury Tales, written by
Geoffrey Chaucer, features a new striking cover design and is
printed in a modern font, crafting an approachable experience of
one of the most influential works in English literature.
This edition presents all of the surviving manuscripts, together
with textual apparatus and commentary. The poem is also presented
in parallel with its principal source, Boccaccio's "Filostrato",
enabling the reader to compare the two poems in charting the
evolution and achievement of Chaucer's "Troilus". This edition has
been revised and corrected in order to make the text fully
accessible to the reader unfamiliar with Chaucer's work. An
introduction discusses the text, metre and sources of "Troilus" and
assesses the literary importance of Chaucer's translation method.
Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning
full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer
series explores the complete text of The Wife of Bath's Prologue
and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and
illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury
pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of
unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School
Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping
students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense
of irony and love of controversy.
Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385) is an epic poem written by English
poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in Middle English, Troilus and
Criseyde is the story of two lovers forced apart by the Greek siege
of Troy. Often considered Chaucer's finest work for its structural
consistency and completeness, the poem adapts Homer's Iliad and
other ancient sources which expand on its tradition to tell a
Christian moral tale about the importance of faith and the sacred
nature of human love. After mocking the god of love, Troilus-a
Trojan warrior and the youngest son of Priam-is struck with desire
for the beautiful Criseyde, the daughter of a prophet named
Calchas. With her uncle Pandarus' help, the two begin to exchange
letters before consummating their love in secret. Meanwhile,
Calchas-who has predicted the fall of Troy and abandoned the city
to join the Greeks-is negotiating with both sides in order to
facilitate the release of Antenor in exchange for his daughter,
Criseyde. Although Troilus and Hector object to the plan, Criseyde
is sent to the Greek camp. Despite promising to return to Troy and
to remain faithful to Troilus, she secretly doubts herself, and is
soon courted by the Greek hero Diomede. Troilus and Criseyde, a
masterpiece of medieval literature, is a tragic story of desire,
will, and the divine that continues to move readers centuries after
it was written. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Geoffrey
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is a classic of English literature
reimagined for modern readers.
Marion Wynne-Davies' detailed feminist reading of "The Wife of
Bath's Prologue and Tale" and "The Clerk's Prologue and Tale" is
the first edition to address the social and cultural context of
these poems' production. Her analysis of the original manuscripts
of the tales, and of the questions raised about gender and cultural
history, is accessible and illuminating. With glosses on the page
and a bibliography to assist with further reading, this edition may
be an essential study aid for all students of Chaucer, whether
familiar with the poems or coming to them for the first time.
The third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's
Complete Works, reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon.
Since F. N. Robinson's second edition of the The Works of Geoffrey
Chaucer was published in 1957, there has been a dramatic increase
in Chaucer scholarship. This has not only enriched our
understanding of Chaucer's art, but has also enabled scholars,
working for the first time with all the source-material, to
recreate Chaucer's authentic texts. For the third edition, an
international team of experts completely re-edited all the works,
added glosses to appear on the page with the text, and greatly
expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual
notes, bibliography, and glossary. In short, the Riverside Chaucer
is the fruit of many years' study - the most authentic and exciting
edition available of Chaucer's Complete Works.
Troilus and Criseyde (c.1385) is an epic poem written by English
poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Composed in Middle English, Troilus and
Criseyde is the story of two lovers forced apart by the Greek siege
of Troy. Often considered Chaucer's finest work for its structural
consistency and completeness, the poem adapts Homer's Iliad and
other ancient sources which expand on its tradition to tell a
Christian moral tale about the importance of faith and the sacred
nature of human love. After mocking the god of love, Troilus-a
Trojan warrior and the youngest son of Priam-is struck with desire
for the beautiful Criseyde, the daughter of a prophet named
Calchas. With her uncle Pandarus' help, the two begin to exchange
letters before consummating their love in secret. Meanwhile,
Calchas-who has predicted the fall of Troy and abandoned the city
to join the Greeks-is negotiating with both sides in order to
facilitate the release of Antenor in exchange for his daughter,
Criseyde. Although Troilus and Hector object to the plan, Criseyde
is sent to the Greek camp. Despite promising to return to Troy and
to remain faithful to Troilus, she secretly doubts herself, and is
soon courted by the Greek hero Diomede. Troilus and Criseyde, a
masterpiece of medieval literature, is a tragic story of desire,
will, and the divine that continues to move readers centuries after
it was written. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Geoffrey
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde is a classic of English literature
reimagined for modern readers.
This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides
an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has
influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is
still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary
community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many
of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns
itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On
the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the
Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by
feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and
anthropological theories to name but a few. The book provides an
introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the
most important work in the field, including excerpts from
book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative
journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail
the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above
approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen
as reflecting them all. This convenient single volume collection of
key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some
journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be
indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature
and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their
understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved,
essential classics. 'Full wise is he that can himselven knowe.'
Written at the end of the fourteenth century, the poet Geoffrey
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories told in
Middle-English. Thirty pilgrims leave Southwark to travel to a
shrine in Canterbury and become the narrators, telling each other
stories of chivalrous romance, fable, parable, debate and comedy as
they journey. Their accounts of the human condition remain as
resonant today as when they were first written.
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