Description: "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 "Britain's greatest medieval poem by its greatest non-dramatic poet: this new edition will be attractive to students, scholars, and general readers alike. Facsimiles of individual leaves from the Ellesmere Manuscript have been scattered throughout the volume to give us a real sense of what it would have been like to open The Canterbury Talesfor the first time in the years immediately following Chaucer's death." - Larry Scanlon, Rutgers University "With its meticulously edited text, generous glosses and notes, abundant selections from relevant medieval sources, and attractive reproductions of the sumptuous pages of the Ellesmere Manuscript, the Broadview Canterbury Taleswill become the obvious choice for teachers, students, and general readers alike." - John T. Sebastian, Loyola University New Orleans "This is the best edition of the TalesI've found to date." - John Marlin, College of Saint Elizabeth

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