Edited by Douglas Gray
Over 2,000 entries
Written by an international team of scholars, the Oxford Companion to Chaucer provides a wealth of clear, up-to-date assessments on all aspects of Chaucer. Entries provide information on Chaucer's life and times, his works and the characteristics of them, his language and metre, his reading and the creative uses he made of it, and his major moral and literary themes. Extensive reference is also made to the development of critical opinion about his works over the centuries.
This Companion provides a fascinating and practical guide to Chaucer for readers at every level.
Douglas Gray is J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language Emeritus, University of Oxford.
ISBN: 0198117655
Publishing history: first published 2003
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