Selections from The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue -- Knight's Tale -- Miller's Prologue and Tale -- Reeve's Prologue and Tale -- Cook's Prologue and Tale -- Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale -- Friar's Prologue and Tale -- Summoner's Prologue and Tale -- Clerk's Prologue and Tale -- Merchant's Prologue and Tale -- Franklin's Prologue and Tale -- Pardoner's Prologue and Tale -- Prioress's Prologue and Tale -- Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas -- From Prologue and Tale of Melibee -- Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale -- Manciple's Prologue and Tale -- from Parson's Prologue and Tale -- Chaucer's Retraction -- Sources and Backgrounds: General Prologue: from Decameron, First Day, Introduction / Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Decameron, Tenth Day, Conclusion / Giovanni Boccaccio -- [Human Life as a Pilgrimage] / St. Augustine -- [On Pilgrimage] / Sir William Thorpe -- [On the Estates] / Thomas Wimbledon -- [On Monks] / William Langland -- [On Monks] / John Gower -- Wycliffite Estates Criticism -- Miller's Prologue and Tale: Three Guests of Heile of Bersele -- Reeve's Prologue and Tale: Miller and the Two Clerics -- Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale: From Romance of the Rose / Jean De Meun -- From Golden Book on Marriage / Theophrastus -- From Against Jovinian / St. Jerome -- From Letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against Marriage / Walter Map -- From Gospel According to St. John -- From St. Paul to the Corinthians 1 -- From St. Paul to the Ephesians -- From St. Paul to Timothy 1 -- From St. Paul to Timothy 2 -- Tale of Florent / John Gower -- Friar's Prologue and Tale: Greedy Bailiff / Robert Rypon -- Clerk's Prologue and Tale: from Decameron, Tenth Day, Tenth Tale / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Story of Griselda / Francis Petrarch -- [Two Letters to Boccaccio] / Francis Petrarch -- From Le Menagier de Paris -- Merchant's Prologue and Tale: Woman and the Pear-Tree -- Franklin's Prologue and Tale: From Decameron, Tenth Day, Fifth Tale / Giovanni Boccaccio -- [On Love and Marriage] / Bartholomaeus Anglicus -- Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: From Romance of the Rose / Jean De Meun -- Hermit, Death, and Robbers -- Thomas of Cantimpre from Liber De Apibus -- Prioress's Prologue and Tale: Story of the Alma Redemptoris Mater -- Miracle of Our Lady -- Alma Redemptoris Mater -- [On Christian Mistreatment of Jews] / Pope Gregory X -- Prologue and Tale of Sir Thopas: From Guy of Warwick -- Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale: From Aesop's Fables / William Caxton -- Cock and the Fox / Marie de France -- From Le Roman de Renart, Branch 2 -- [On Dreams] / Macrobius -- Geoffrey of Vinsauf [Lament On The Death Of Richard I] -- [On The Cock] / Bartholomaeus Anglicus -- Manciple's Prologue and Tale: [The Story of Phoebus And Coronis] / Ovid -- Tale of Phoebus and Cornide / John Gower -- Criticism: Historical Chaucer / F.R.H. Du Boulay -- Chaucer's Prologue to Pilgrimage: Two Voices / Arthur W. Hoffman -- Chaucer the Pilgrim / E. Talbot Donaldson -- ''Poet Ther Was'': Chaucer's voices in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales / Barbara Nolan -- [Dramatic Principle of the Canterbury Tales] / George Lyman Kittredge -- [Marriage Group] / George Lyman Kittredge -- From Parson's Tale and the Quitting of The Canterbury Tales / Lee Patterson -- From Social Chaucer: ''Mixed Commonwealth of Style'' / Paul Strohm -- Eunuch Hermeneutics / Carolyn Dinshaw -- Chronology: Geoffrey Chaucer -- Selected Bibliography.
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