The Physician's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Corsa, Helen Storm, ed.
The Physician'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. 17.
- Description
- Following the guidelines of the general editors, Paul G. Ruggiers, Donald C. Baker, and Daniel J. Ransom, Corsa provides "collations of those manuscripts which have attracted commentary" and "readings from the principle printed editions that have been directly influenced by the manuscript tradition." This edition, based on Hengwrt, relies on the Manly-Rickert 1940 edition for variants and provides exhaustive summaries of six centuries of scholarly opinion.
- Includes an 86 page introduction with critical and textual commentary and a bibliographical index and general index.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.