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The Prioress' Prologue and Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer) - Softcover

Chaucer, Geoffrey

 
9781316615621: The Prioress' Prologue and Tale (Selected Tales from Chaucer)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1316615626 ISBN 13: 9781316615621
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The classic respected series in a stunning new design.

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Book Description

This edition of The Prioress' 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 James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.

About the Author

Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer s writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular traditionthe use of everyday Englishrather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer s best-knownand most imitatedworks include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame.

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A. C. Spearing is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1316615626
ISBN 13 
9781316615621
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
64