The Summoner's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Plummer, John F., ed.
The Summoner's Tale
- Published
- Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xxviii, 242 pp.
- Series
- A Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Vol. 2, "The Canterbury Tales," pt. 07.
- Description
- Edition of SumT, based on the Hengwrt manuscript. Collates nine additional manuscripts and the major editions from Caxton to "The Riverside Chaucer." Spelling is lightly modernized and punctuation is introduced. Notes, critical commentary, and textual commentary are based on a comprehensive survey of significant scholarship from 1635 to 1986. The critical commentary addresses sources and analogues, date,adaptations, and critical approaches; the textual commentary includes descriptions of the witnesses to the text and discussion of textual tradition, glosses, and the place of SumT in CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Summoner and His Tale.