The Problem of Authorial Variants in the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Author / Editor
Solopova, Elizabeth.

Title
The Problem of Authorial Variants in the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Published
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II (London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communications, 1997), pp. 133-42.

Description
Analyzes the manuscript variants of the so-called added passages of WBP, concluding that the passages were composed by Chaucer and that they extend from a single exemplar, probably an unfinished authorial draft.

Alternative Title
The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.