Overview

The Broadview Canterbury Tales is a new edition of the complete tales in a text based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript. Here one may read a Middle English text that is closer to what Chaucer’s scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, actually wrote than that in any other modern edition. Unlike most editions, which draw on a number of manuscripts in an effort to recapture Chaucer’s original intention, this edition preserves the text as it was found in one influential manuscript. Spellings have not been standardized, the order of the lines and passages has not been altered, the text has only been emended when absolutely necessary for sense, and the original marginal glosses are noted throughout.

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Praise for the first edition: I can already tell you that this text-unlike any other Chaucer text-makes it easy for students to read and understand Chaucer. It has certainly made my job easier! - Mary Flowers Braswell, University of Alabama at Birmingham This attractive, readable edition features Chaucer's Middle English text, marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, and illustrative facsimile pages. Especially helpful are the appended 'background documents,' historical and literary, which provide key contexts for the interpretation of Chaucer's work. A useful bibliography concludes the volume. Highly recommended. - Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame

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Robert Boenig is Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Andrew Taylor is Professor of English at the University of Ottawa.

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