The Canterbury Tales
'Whoever best acquits himself, and tells The most amusing and instructive tale, Shall have a dinner, paid for by us all...' In Chaucer's most ambitious poem, The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387), a group of pilgrims assembles in an inn just outside London and agree to entertain each other on the way to Canterbury by telling stories. The pilgrims come from all ranks of society, from the crusading Knight and burly Miller to the worldly Monk and lusty Wife of Bath. Their tales are as various as the tellers, including romance, bawdy comedy, beast fable, learned debate, parable, and Eastern adventure. The resulting collection gives us a set of charact…
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Weitere Autoren: Wright, David (Übers.) / Cannon, Christopher (Einf. u. Anm.)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959902-8
- EAN: 9780199599028
- Produktnummer: 11182817
- Verlag: Oxford Academic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 560 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.5 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.3 cm 383 g
- Gewicht: 383
Über den Autor
David Wright (1920-94) was a poet, author, and translator. Born in South Africa, he was deafened by scarlet fever at the age of 7 and emigrated to England when he was 14. He co-founded the literary review X which he co-edited from 1959-62, and published several books of verse, a translation of Beowulf, and edited anthologies of verse for Penguin and Faber.Christopher Cannon has taught at UCLA, Oxford, and Cambridge. His publications include The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words (2001;2005). The Grounds of English Literature (2004; 2007), and Middle English Literature: A Cultural History (2008). He has written the Foreword to the Riverside Chaucer.
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