(The) Canterbury tales : seventeen tales and the general prologue : authoritative text sources and backgrounds criticism / by Geoffrey Chaucer ; edited by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson

Includes bibliographical reference and glossary.

SELECTION FROM THE CANTERBURY TALES : The general prologue -- The knight's tale -- The miller's prologue and tale -- The reeve's prologue and tale -- The cook's prologue and tale -- The man of law's introduction, prologue and tale -- the wife of bath's prologue and tale -- The wife of bath's prologue and tale -- The friar's prologue and tale -- The summoner's prologue and tale -- The clerk's prologue and tale -- The Merchant's prologue and tale -- The franklin's prologue and tale -- The pardoner's prologue and tale -- The prologue and tale of sir Thopas -- From the prologue and tale of Melibee -- The nun's priest's prologue and tale -- The second nun's prologue and tale -- The Manciple's prologue and tale -- From the parson's prologue and tale -- From the parson's prologue and tale -- Chaucer's retraction -- SOURCES AND BACKGROUND : The general prologue -- From the Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Human life as a pilgrimage / St. Augustine -- On pilgrimage / Sir Willian Thorpe -- On the estates / Thomas Wimbledon -- On Monks / William Langland -- On Monks / John Gower -- Wycliffite estate criticism -- The miller's prologue and tale -- The three guests of Heile of Bersele -- The reeve's prologue and tale -- The miller and two Clerice -- THE WIFE OF BATH'S PROLOGUE AND TALE : From the romance of the rose / Jean De Meun -- From The golden book on Marriage / Theophrastus -- From against Jovinian / St. Jerome -- From the letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against marriage / Walter Map -- The tale of Florent / John Gower -- THE FRIAR'S PROLOGUE AND TALE : A greedy bailiff / Robert Rypon -- THE CLERK'S PROLOGUE AND TALE : From the Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The story of Griselda / Francis Petrarch -- Two letters to Boccaccio / Francis Petrarch -- From Le Menagier de Paris / Francis Petrarch -- THE MERCHANT'S PROLOGUE AND TALE : The woman and the pear-tree -- THE FRANKLIN'S PROLOGUE AND TALE : From the Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- On love and marriage / Bartholomaeus Anglicus -- THE PARDONER'S PROLOGUE AND TALE : From the romance of the rose the hermit, death and the robbers / Jean de Menu -- From liber de apibus / Thomas of Cantimpre -- THE PRIORESS'S PROLOGUE AND TALE :The story of the alma Redemptoris mater -- a miracle -- Alma Redemptoris mater -- On Christian Mistreatmnt of Jews / Pope Gregory X -- THE PROLOGUE AND TALE OF SIR THOPAS : From guy of Warwick -- THE NUN'S PRIEST'S PROLOGUE AND TALE : From aesop's fables / William Caxton -- The clock and the fox / Marie de France -- From le Roman de Renart, branch 2 -- On Dreams / Macrobius -- Lament on the death of Richard I / Geoffey of Vinsauf -- On Clock / Bartholomaeus Anglicus -- THE MANCIPLE'S PROLOGUE ANS TALE : The story of phoebus and coronis / Ovid -- The tale of phoebus and cornide / John Gower -- CRITICISM : From social hierarcy and social change / Maurice Keen -- An introduction to Chaucer and his poem / Winthrop Wetherbee -- The reception of the Canterbury tale / Winthrop Wetherbee -- Chaucer the pilgrim / E.Tallbot Donaldson -- Chaucer's prologue to pilgrimage : the two voice / Arthur W. Hoffman -- From suffering women , suffering god / Jill Mann -- From world apart : orientalism, antifeminism, and heresy in Chaucer's man of law's tale / Susan Schibanoff -- "Fulfild of Farirye" : the social meaning of fantasy in the wife of bath's prologue and tale / Louise O. Fradenburg -- From the pardoner's prologue and tale / Helen Cooper -- Eunuch hermeneutics / Carolyn Dinshaw -- Empathy and commonwealth of style / Paul Strohm -- From the parson's tale and the quitting of the canterbury tales / Lee Pattterson