Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
Table of Contents
The greatness of Chaucer / G.K. Chesterton -- The ending of Troilus ; The effect of the "Merchant's tale" / E. Talbot Donaldson -- Can we trust the wife of Bath? / David Parker -- From medieval to Renaissance / Alice S. Miskimin -- The idea of The Canterbury tales / Donald R. Howard -- The importance of the literal / Charles A. Owen -- Truth and fiction in the "Nun's priest's tale" / Saul Nathaniel Brody -- Literal and symbolic in The Canterbury tales / Stewart Justman.