The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Illustrations

pp vii-vii

Contributors

pp viii-viii

Preface

pp ix-xii

Note on the Text

pp xiii-xiii

Chronology

pp xiv-xvi

Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

1 - The Form of the Canterbury Tales

pp 1-20

2 - Manuscripts, Scribes, Circulation

pp 21-44

3 - The General Prologue

pp 45-58

4 - The Knight’s Tale and the Estrangements of Form

pp 59-72

5 - The Miller’s Tale and the Art of Solaas

pp 73-88

6 - The Man of Law’s Tale

pp 89-104

7 - The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale

pp 105-120

8 - The Friar’s Tale and The Summoner’s Tale in Word and Deed

pp 121-135

9 - Griselda and the Problem of the Human in The Clerk’s Tale

pp 136-150

10 - The Franklin’s Symptomatic Sursanure

pp 151-165

11 - The Pardoner and His Tale

pp 166-177

12 - The Prioress’s Tale

pp 178-190

13 - The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

pp 191-204

14 - Moral Chaucer

pp 205-217

15 - Chaucer’s Sense of an Ending

pp 218-231

16 - Postscript: How to Talk about Chaucer with Your Friends and Colleagues

pp 232-254

Reading Chaucer: Easier than You Think?

pp 233-237

Scholarship or Distraction? New Forums for Talking about Chaucer

pp 238-243

Talking about Chaucer with School Teachers

pp 244-249

Who Will Pay?

pp 250-254