The Canterbury Tales GEOFFREY CHAUCER by R.M.LUMIANSKY, Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham, Chaucer, Geoffrey ISBN 9780671491284, 9780671727697, 0671491288, 0671727699 instant download

The Canterbury Tales GEOFFREY CHAUCER by R.M.LUMIANSKY, Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham, Chaucer, Geoffrey ISBN 9780671491284, 9780671727697, 0671491288, 0671727699 instant download

this Norton Critical Edition Includes The Most Admired Of Chaucer’s canterbury Tales.

publishers Weekly

like Charles Lamb's Edition Of Shakespeare, Hastings's Loose Prose Translation Of Seven Of Chaucer's Tales Is More Faithful To The Work's Plot Than To The Poet's Language. This Is Not A Prudish Retelling (even The Bawdy Miller's Tale Is Included Here) But The Vigor Of Chaucer's Text Is Considerably Tamed. In The Original, The Pilgrims Possess Unique Voices, But Here The Tone Is Uniformly Bookish. The Colloquial Speech Of The Storyteller Is Replaced By Formal Prose; For Example, While Cohen (see Review Above) Directly Translates Chaucer's ``domb As A Stoon'' As ``silent As Stones,'' Hastings Writes ``in Solemn Silence.'' Cartwright's Startling Paintings Skillfully Suggest The Stylized Flatness Of A Medieval Canvas, But Often Without The Accompanying Richness Of Detail. Like Punch And Judy Puppets, The Faces And Voices Of These Pilgrims Are Generally Representative But Lack The Life And Charm Of The Original Text. Ages 10-up. (oct.)

A collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales (mostly in verse, although some are in prose) are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In a long list of works, including Troilus and Criseyde, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowls, The Canterbury Tales was Chaucer's magnum opus. He uses the tales and the descriptions of the characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church. Structurally, the collection bears the influence of The Decameron, which Chaucer is said to have come across during his first diplomatic mission to Italy in 1372. However, Chaucer peoples his tales with 'sondry folk' rather than Boccaccio's fleeing nobles. \"The…