Geoffrey Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales Book

Introduction     7
Biographical Sketch     15
The Story Behind the Story     19
List of Characters     23
Summary and Analysis     34
Critical Views     68
G.K. Chesterton on Chaucer's Greatness     68
Arthur W. Hoffman on the Opening Lines of the Prologue     70
E.T. Donaldson on Chaucer the Poet and Pilgrim     72
Paul G. Ruggiers on Chaucerian Comedy     74
V.A. Kolve on Chaucer's Fabliaux     78
Alcuin Blamires on Excess and Restraint in the Tales     80
Winthrop Wetherbee on the Absence of Order     82
Anne Laskaya on Chaucer and Competition     84
Derek Brewer on the Miller's Tale     87
Helen Phillips on Intentional Diversity in the Tales     89
John C. Hirsh on Love and Death in the Knight's Tale     91
C. David Benson on the First Two Tales     94
Seth Lerer on the Philosophical Question of the Tales     96
Lee Patterson on Chaucer as Creator of English Tradition     97
Works   Geoffrey Chaucer     101
Annotated Bibliography     102
Contributors     109
Acknowledgments     112
Index     115