The Norton Chaucer, ed. David Lawton, with prose texts ed. by Jennifer Arch and dream poems ed. by Kathryn Lynch. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2019, xii, 1197 pp., b/w ill.

It seems almost unbelievable that anyone would dare to take on the task of editing Chaucer’s complete works once again in light of the mountain of research available, along with numerous previous editions and translation. Nevertheless, David Lawton, a long-time expert on Chaucer, following the lead of E. T. Donaldson’s