Chaucer In Modern English Prose The Canterbury Tales
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| Author | : John Edmonds |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 2006-07-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1847281850 |
This book presents Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in modern English prose. Already Middle English is sufficiently obscure to deter even those interested in English literature. How many have read the whole of the Canterbury Tales? Even fewer will have read his other works. The purpose of this book is to allow the reader easy access to Chaucer's meaning apart from the poetic presentation. This is to put more emphasis on what he says rather than the way he says it. Chaucer's works are a commentary on 14th century life and literature, much of it in prose. There are then two reasons for reading Chaucer. One is for social history, and the other for his poetry. To separate the two can only make his work more accessible. Hopefully this will lead to a greater appreciation of medieval English literature in general.
| Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2005-03-15 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 160384063X |
Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction--from earthy to Latinate--conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. The selection features complete translations of the majority of the stories, including all of the more familiar tales and narrative links along with abridgments or summaries of the others. To reflect Chaucer's interest in poetic technique, Glaser presents the tales written in non-couplet stanzas in their original forms. An Introduction, marginal glosses, bibliography, and notes are also included.
| Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 1903 |
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| Author | : Chaucer, Geoffrey |
| Publisher | : Prestwick House Inc |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Canterbury (England) |
| ISBN | : 9781580495202 |
| Author | : Norman Davis |
| Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780198111719 |
This Glossary, designed as a practical aid to the reading of Chaucer, is intended to be serviceable with any of the widely read editions. Its primary aim is to explain the meanings of words and phrases used by Chaucer in ways which are unfamiliar in modern English. Words used as they are today are not included, but many now in common use do appear, as they had different connotations in Chaucer's time. This concise working tool will be valuable to all Middle English scholars.
| Author | : Gerald J. Davis |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2016-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1365188019 |
The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.
| Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
| Total Pages | : 1400 |
| Release | : 2012-12-21 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 1621074595 |
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is epic in everyway; it have love, humor, history, religion--it has it all! Who wouldn't want to read this true classic? Unfortunately, reading it and understanding it can be two very different things because the English often just does not make sense to the modern reader. Let BookCaps help with this modern translation. If you have struggled in the past reading old English, then BookCaps can help you out. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
| Author | : Chaucer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1886 |
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| Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2009-10-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101155639 |
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
| Author | : Michael Herzog |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 2019-10-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780997623468 |
It is 1398, and all of Europe is abuzz about the duel to be fought in September between Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, and Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk, to settle the question of which one has committed treason against King Richard II. Geoffrey Chaucer, courtier and well-known poet, is unexpectedly drawn into the intrigue surrounding the impending duel and compelled to perform an act so heinous that he is shaken to the core. The journal Chaucer begins and keeps for the remaining two and a half years of his life chronicles his unlikely rise as the son of a middle-class wine broker to become not only the pre-eminent poet of his age but the brother-in-law of John of Gaunt, uncle to the king, at times the most powerful man in England and, with his three wives, the ancestor of every ruler of England since the year 1400. This novel provides a fascinating look into life in late 14th century England, the women and men Chaucer loves, the intrigues of the Richardian court, and what compels someone who holds some of the most important jobs in the English bureaucracy to spend his nights writing poetry that is still being read and studied 600 years after his death.
