Canterbury Tales PB

by John M. Bowers

Book Overview

When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete masterpiece. The pieces presented here date from the fifteenth century and survive in at least one manuscript collection of Chaucer's tales: John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, The Cook's Tale, Spurious Links, and The Canterbury...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879288230
• ISBN13: 9781879288232
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.9"