Geoffrey Chaucer: The Tales of the Clerk and the Wife of Bath

Author / Editor
Wynne-Davies, Marion, ed.

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Tales of the Clerk and the Wife of Bath

Published
London and New York: Routledge, 1992.

Physical Description
viii, 210 pp.

Series
Routledge English Texts.

Description
An edition of WBPT and ClPT, based on the Hengwrt manuscript. The introduction and critical commentary address the social context of the works, discusssing Griselda and the Wife as accurate reflections of the medieval status of women.
The edition includes bottom-of-the-page glosses and a glossary, brief notes indicating sources and some manuscript variants, and a selected bibliography.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
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