Norton Critical Editions:Medieval Literature

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  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  Marie Borroff, Laura L. Howes, Marie Borroff

  First Edition

  Paperback

  This long-awaited Norton Critical Edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight includes Marie Borroff’s celebrated, newly revised verse translation with supporting materials not to be found in any other single volume.

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  Beowulf: A Verse Translation

  Seamus Heaney, Daniel Donoghue

  Second Edition

  Paperback

  “Accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right.” —New York Times Book Review

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  The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue

  Geoffrey Chaucer, V. A. Kolve, Glending Olson

  Third Edition

  Paperback

  This Norton Critical Edition includes:
  
  • The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s...

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  Marie de France: Poetry

  Marie de France, Dorothy Gilbert, Dorothy Gilbert

  First Edition

  Paperback

  Marie de France's beautiful poems of courtly love, enchantment and mystery are now available in a Norton Critical Edition.

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  The Decameron

  Giovanni Boccaccio, Wayne A. Rebhorn, Wayne A. Rebhorn

  First Edition

  Paperback

  “If you want the true, mixed, fourteenth-century book that Boccaccio wrote, choose Rebhorn.”—Joan Acocella, The New Yorker