The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions (Middle English Texts Series)

When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project, the Canterbury Tales, lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps in this incomplete masterpiece. The pieces presented here date from the fifteenth century and survive in at least one manuscript collection of Chaucer's tales: John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, The Cook's Tale, Spurious Links, and The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn. These pieces of Chaucerian apocrypha have been collected into one student-friendly edition, including introductions, notes, glosses, and a glossary to accommodate students of all levels of experience in Middle English. When Geoffrey Chaucer died in 1400, his massive project "The Canterbury Tales" lay unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five such works that date from the fifteenth century and survive in at least one manuscript collection of Chaucer's Tales: John Lydgate's Prologue to the Siege of Thebes, The Ploughman's Tale, The Cook's Tale, Spurious Links and The Canterbury Interlude and Merchant's Tale of Beryn. John Lydgate's Prologue To The Siege Of Thebes (bl Arundel 119) -- The Ploughman's Tale (christ Church Oxford Ms 152) -- The Cook's Tale (bodley Ms 686) -- Spurious Links (bl Lansdowne 851 And Bl Royal 18.c.ii) -- The Canterbury Interlude And Merchant's Tale Of Beryn (northumberland Ms 455) Edited By John M. Bowers. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 5-10). When Chaucer died in 1400, the Canterbury Tales, was unfinished and unpublished. This volume includes five works that aim to fill in the gaps. Chaucerian apocrypha collected into one student-friendly edition, including introductions, notes, glosses, and a glossary to accommodate students of all levels of experience in Middle English.