The wife of Bath's prologue and tale

Author(s)

• Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400
• Allen, Mark Edward
• Fisher, John H. (John Hurt)
• Trahern, Joseph B.

Bibliographic Information

The wife of Bath's prologue and tale

[Geoffrey Chaucer] ; edited by Mark Allen and John H. Fisher ; with the assistance of Joseph Trahern

（A variorum edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, v. 2 . The Canterbury tales ; pt. 5）

University of Oklahoma Press, c2012

• : [set] : hardcover
• pt. A
• pt. B

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Wife of Bath is the most vibrant character in The Canterbury Tales - and arguably the most famous. In creating his brilliant portrayal of the talkative wife, Chaucer weaves a dazzling array of allusions to biblical, classical, patristic, and vernacular sources. These two volumes - the most recent contribution to the Variorum Chaucer series - integrate six hundred years of scholarship on The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. Editors Mark Allen and John H. Fisher present a comprehensive record of the textual traditions of the tale and of the critical commentary from the earliest manuscripts to the mid-1990s. Part A (the first volume) includes the text of Chaucer's poem, accompanied by exhaustive collation of the ten most valuable manuscript witnesses to the text and all twenty-two of the major editions. Also included in Part A are an introduction to the text, and extensive discussions of sources and analogues, genres, theoretical approaches, and major themes. A bibliographical index concludes the scholarly apparatus in Part A. In Part B (the second volume), the editors present a line-by-line, often word-by-word, record of the legacy of Chaucer's text, including variants, glosses, editors' notes, and observations by scholars through the ages.

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Details

• NCID: BB08530949
• ISBN:
  • 9780806142241
• LCCN: 2011035309
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Norman
• Pages/Volumes: 2 v.
• Size: 27 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR1868.W592
  • DC23 : 821/.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Characters -- Wife of Bath
  • LCSH : Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) -- Poetry
  • LCSH : Arthurian romances -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01071380