Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. * A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. * Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. * Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. * Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur. * Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form. * Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week's work in a semester-long course. * Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.