The Variant Passages in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the Textual Transmission of 'The Canterbury Tales': The 'Great Tradition' Revisited
- Author / Editor
- Kennedy, Beverly.
The Variant Passages in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the Textual Transmission of 'The Canterbury Tales': The 'Great Tradition' Revisited
- Published
- Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor, eds. Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993, Volume II (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1995), pp. 85-101.
- Description
- Documents the manuscript evidence of the authenticity of six passages in WBP (44a-f, 575-84, 605-08, 609-12, 619-26, 717-20) and surveys justifications for their inclusion in various editions.
- Attributes the continued inclusion of these questionable passages to editorial conservatism and modern refusal to distinguish between repeated remarriage (evident throughout WBP) and sexual promiscuity (evident only in the passages).
- Contributor
- Smith, Lesley,
- Taylor, Jane H. M.,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993, Volume II.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.