The Canterbury Tales: Fifteen Tales and The General Prologue（坎特伯雷故事集）

This Norton Critical Edition includes the most admired of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Each is presented in the original language, with normalized spelling and substantial annotations for modern readers. Among the new added to the Second Edition are the much-requested "Merchant’s Tale" and the "Tale of Sir Thopas."
　　"Sources and Backgrounds" are included for the General Prologue and for most of the tales, enabling students to understand The Canterbury Tales in light of relevant medieval ideas and attitudes and inviting comparison between Chaucer’s work and his sources.
　　"Criticism" includes nine essays, four of them new to this edition, by leading Chaucerians, among them F. R. H. DuBoulay, E. Talbot Donaldson, Barbara Nolani, and Lee Patterson.
　　A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included

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