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J. J. Anderson, ed.
Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales.
Published Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1987 reprint (previously issued 1974).
Series: Casebook Series.
ISBN 0333145240;
ISBN-13 9780333145241.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in Hong Kong.
Size: 137x216x14mm.
Page count: 255pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild scuffs and marks on the covers, a little wear on the edges and corners; the spine is a bit faded and wrinkled, but not noticeably creased from reading; at least 2 pages have some lightly inked sidelines in the margins.

This item £3.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £19.99]
Weight without packaging: 326g.

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Contents:
1. Early extracts: Wiliam Caxton; John Dryden; William Blake; William Hazlitt; Matthew Arnold;
2. Twentieth-Century Criticism:
Kittredge, Chaucer’s discussion of marriage (1912);
Donaldson, Chaucer the Pilgrim (1954);
Hoffman, Chaucer’s prologue to pilgrimage — the 2 voices (1954);
Frost, Interpretation of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale (1949);
Donaldson, Idiom of popular poetry in the Miller’s Tale (1950);
Slade, Irony in the Wife of Bath’s Tale (1969);
Burrow, Irony in the Merchant’s Tale (1957);
Bishop, Narrative art of the Pardoner’s Tale (1967);
Ruggiers, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (1912);
Muscatine, Canon's Yeoman’s Tale (1957).

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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