The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Blamires, Alcuin. Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Brown, Peter, ed. A Companion to Chaucer. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, reprint edition 2002.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Riverside Chaucer. Ed. Larry Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Cooper, Helen. The Structure of The Canterbury Tales. London: Duckworth Press, 1983.

Howard, Donald. The Idea of The Canterbury Tales. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.

Knapp, Peggy A. Chaucer and the Social Contest. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Pearsall, Derek. The Canterbury Tales. London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1985, reprint edition 1993.

Wetherbee, Winthrop. Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2003.

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