Publisher's Synopsis
The volumes in the "Oxford Guides to Chaucer" series aim to provide readers at every level with new interpretations and ideas, with up-to-date information on such matters as dating and sources, and with analyses of thematic issues, structure, style, rhetoric and generic relations.;This particular volume on "The Canterbury Tales" offers new interpretations and ideas both for the whole work and for each individual tale. It also includes a survey of literary responses to the tales over the two centuries following Chaucer's death.
