Medieval Comic Tales
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek, ed.
Medieval Comic Tales
- Published
- Woodbridge, Suffolk ; and Rochester, N. Y. : D. S. Brewer, 1996.
- Physical Description
- 2nd ed. xxxiv, 190 pp.
- Description
- An expanded revision of the 1973 edition, with one additional tale translated from French, three from Spanish, five from Middle English, three from German, six from Dutch (with three deleted), and one from Latin, for a total of eighty tales, songs, and anecdotes. The introduction appears for the first time, with frequent references to Chaucer and his fabliaux and other tales (not included).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.