I found this rather disappointing, but not because of Chaucer's text, but rather the structure and layout chosen by the author and editors. The facing page arrangement of Middle English vs a modern english translation was good - it kept intelligibility high without losing sight of the original metre / versification. However, all the notes were tucked away at the back of the book, obscurely referenced by an asterix placed seemingly at random in the text to indicate you should look something up.

This would have probably been OK had the notes been of any substance, but they were typically two-liners clarifying some reference to medieval literature or similar, any would have been much better handled as footnotes on the relevant page.

The preface stated this was so as not to interrupt the flow of the stories, but I found the result much more disruptive than if the reference was on the page. My cynical mind says the real reason was more to do with the technical typographical difficulties in maintaining a line-by-line correspondance in the facing page translations when footnotes are used.

But the Chaucer was brilliant.