Chaucer's Works

This scholarly edition of The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is both a major text of Middle English literature and a guide to reading it with precision. From the opening pages, it presents Chaucer as a writer whose authentic voice must be recovered through the closest possible study of manuscripts, early printings, language, and verse form. The editor explains the textual problems behind individual works, from the corrupted Romaunt of the Rose and disputed Minor Poems to carefully revised texts of Boethius, Troilus, the House of Fame, the Legend of Good Women, and the Treatise on the Astrolabe, where Chaucer's astronomical interests demand special accuracy. The volume also offers detailed glossarial and grammatical help, unpacking Chaucer's vocabulary, spellings, and forms for modern readers. Its extensive notes and indexes map the Canterbury Tales and other major poems, while also tracing sources, metre, pronunciation, and centuries of scholarship. Richly annotated and rigorously philological, it is a collaborative monument to Chaucer criticism and textual study. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.