The Prioress's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Boyd, Beverly, ed.
The Prioress's Tale
- Published
- Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.
- Series
- A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 2, "The Canterbury Tales," pt. 20.
- Description
- Relying on Hengwrt as the basic text, Boyd--in the manner of all editors in this variorum series--surveys both manuscripts and printed editions, emending in light of both. The introduction provides critical and textual commentaries, the former arranged by categories ("'Prioress's Sequence'--'Verba Hospitis', 'Prologue', and 'Tale'") and surveying criticism from the earliest mentions to 1984.
- The textual commentary gives a table of correspondences for manuscripts and printed editions. Collations from base manuscripts and printed editions appear below the text, followed by melded textual and explanatory notes. The volume includes general and bibliographical indexes.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
- Prioress and Her Tale