The Canterbury Tales, Volume 1: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere Manuscript by Chaucer, Geoffrey (9780806114163)

The Canterbury Tales, Volume 1: A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variations from the Ellesmere Manuscript

by Chaucer, Geoffrey

Hardcover - English

This facsimile edition is a complete reproduction of the most reliable of the medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales-the Hengwrt Manuscript (or Peniarth 392 D), now in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. Because it is to serve as the basic text of the Tales for the projected multivolume Variorum Edition of Chaucer's complete works, much deliberation was given to the choice of the Hengwrt Manuscript. Scribed in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century, it is one of the earliest extant manuscripts of the Tales.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0806114169

EAN

9780806114163

Publisher

UNIV OF OKLAHOMA PR

Publication Date

15 Mar 1979

Pages

1078

Weight (kg)

2.98

Dimensions (cm)

32.9 x 22.9 x 6.4

Lexile Level

500

About Author

Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer's writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular tradition--the use of everyday English--rather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer's best-known--and most imitated--works include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fam