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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales."”.
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The unpunctuated Chaucer : a guide to reading the Medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales.
The medieval manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are, in the modern sense, unpunctuated. That is, no commas, semicolons, question marks, or quotation marks existed in the fourteenth century. In spite of that fact, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century readers presumably had no problems reading …
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The development of twentieth century criticisms of The Canterbury tales
… and to evaluate twentieth-century criticisms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Because the topic is so broad, it is necessary to find methods of limiting the subject so that it· may be adequately covered herein. This paper will be limited primarily to books published on the topic under …
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… the narrative and framing techniques used by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. These authors were selected for several reasons. Being contemporaries, they lived through the days of the reign of Richard II, his deposition, and the accession of Henry IV. This was a time change: the age of …
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Completeness and incompleteness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The canterbury tales
… aspects of completeness are given.</p><p>The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is examined with reference to the proposed aspects of completeness. The various ways in which the work can be and has been considered incomplete are discussed. The four fragmentary Tales in The Canterbury …