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This study also situates Hoccleve’s accomplishments in a transnational poetic context – offering French and Italian precedents for Hoccleve’s moralization of Chaucer, while examining the influence of contemporary French poetry on Hoccleve’s work.
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This book treats separately all four poems: Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain. There are also chapters on: the history of the poems and their rediscovery; The main emphasis falls... Læs mere
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This volume of essays focuses on the tale and its ability to create "mirth," what modern audiences would often define as "happiness" or "joy," and the significance of the transference of this mirth to audiences.
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An anthology of the principal source materials for the study of the formation of Middle English as a discipline. The first section traces... Læs mere
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Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings.
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A comprehensive account of the English language from 500 to 1500, which integrates literary and linguistic approaches to explore how... Læs mere
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Lawrence Warner explores the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman. He examines the many... Læs mere
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This History covers the earliest period of English literature, which laid the foundations for all subsequent literature in Britain and Ireland.... Læs mere
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This edition of The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by Maurice Hussey, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.
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This edition of The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.
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Early English texts did not have a convention of quotation marks for reporting direct speech. This raises problems for interpreting and understanding represented... Læs mere
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Focusing on the Clerk, Merchant, Franklin and Squire sequence in The Canterbury Tales, this book explores Chaucer's meditation on the fraught... Læs mere