The Riverside Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer, Larry D. Benson (Editor)
This edition of Chaucer's complete works is the fruit of many years' study and is widely regarded as the standard text. Edited and annotated to a high standard, and with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon, 'The Riverside Chaucer' is now the indispensable edition for students and readers of Chaucer
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xliii, 1327 pages ; 21 cm
9780199552092, 0199552096
231883621
Preface
Introductory note
Introduction: Chaucer's life / Martin M. Crow and Virginia E. Leland ; The canon and chronology of Chaucer's works / Larry D. Benson ; Language and versification / Norman Davis ; The texts / Larry D. Benson
The Canterbury tales
The book of the duchess
The house of fame
Anelida and Arcite
The parliament of fowls
Boece
Troilus and Criseyde
The legend of good women
The short poems
Poems not ascribed to Chaucer in the manuscripts
A treatise on the astrolabe
The romaunt of the rose
Appendix: General bibliography ; Explanatory notes ; Textual notes ; Glossary ; Index of proper names
"Based on The works of Geoffrey Chaucer, edited by F.N. Robinson (1957)." For the third edition of the definitive collection of Chaucer's Complete works, reissued with a new foreword, 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, bibiliography, and glossary