The Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales

Book Overview

Chaucer's best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem's diversity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1316632431
• ISBN13: 9781316632437
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"