This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale.
• Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
• Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
• Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition.
• A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.