Henry James conceived the character of Hyacinth Robinson his 'little presumptuous adventurer with...

This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Op...

The Critical Heritagegathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in litera...

During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. Writers such a...

A popular and highly readable account of the general culture of Chaucer's age, of how life looked...

Many famous stories from the Old Testament, medieval romance and folktale, to Shakespeare's trage...

This volume of essays is aimed at advancing the appreciation of Malory, an author who has always ...

The eleven essays in this volume are studies of specific instances of the influence and impact of...

TheCritical Heritagegathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literat...

The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and th...

The essays collected here on the Gawain-Poet offer stimulating introductions to Sir Gawain and th...

The centuries between 1100 and 1500 were the crucible in which English language and literature, a...

Chaucer: The Poet as Storyteller

Tradition & Innovation in Chaucer

`This masterly book presents, with a wealth of detail, a panorama of the sixty years of Chaucer's...