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The Canterbury Tales
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This book remains in its third edition the most comprehensive single-volume account of the Canterbury Tales, combining information of what is known and what has been thought about the work to offer a fresh and individual tale-by-tale analysis. It provides not only information on textual variations and sources, but a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the fresh emphases in recent theory and criticism that bear directly on the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference
The Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales
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Chaucer's best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem's diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters' fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language.
Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 1 -4
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Useful for overall background information on the Medieval time period.
MLA Handbook (9th ed.)
