The Problem of Authorial Variants in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Solopova, Elizabeth.
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.