Product Description

Key Features:

• Study methods
• Introduction to the text
• Summaries with critical notes
• Themes and techniques
• Textual analysis of key passages
• Author biography
• Historical and literary background
• Modern and historical critical approaches
• Chronology
• Glossary of literary terms

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37422 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Superb for students and teachers alike.
Containing questions to aid in grasping the plot, and in-depth notes to translate and explain the archaic language and its setting, this edition of The Miller's Tale cannot be ignored as the best in the field. Making study easier, without spoon-feeding the central points, I highly recommend this book.

Great purchase!
This is a brilliant edition of Chaucer's The Miller's Tale, I find the notes even more helpful than those in the Riverside Chaucer. The annotations are very detailed and scholarly enough to understand Chaucer in a social context, rather than simply in a literary one. Apart from the notes, you will also find an Approaches section, where aspects of the Tale such as theme and characters are covered. This is by far the best edition of The Miller's Tale, and tells you everything concisely rather than sending you off in the references to do your own reading.

Fourteenth Century Smut
A tricky text is made much more accessible by this superb study guide. Highly recommended.