The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Author / Editor
- Allen, Mark, and John H. Fisher, eds., with the assistance of Joseph Trahern.
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
- Published
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
- Physical Description
- 2 vols. Part 5a xxviii, 424 pp.; Part 5b, xvi, 315 pp.
- Series
- Variorum Edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 2, "The Canterbury Tales," Parts 5a and 5b.
- Description
- Part 5a includes a new text and set of collations for WBPT, based on the Hengwrt MS, with variants from landmark manuscripts and scholarly editions; also includes a Critical Commentary (pp. 3-148) that surveys critical tradition topically, a Textual Commentary (pp. 148-250) that describes the witnesses and surveys cruces, a Bibliographical Index (for Parts 5a and 5b), and a General Index (for Part 5a only). Part 5b includes explanatory notes keyed to individual lines and a General Index (for Part 5b only). Commentaries and notes cover materials published before 1997.
- Contributor
- Fisher, John H., ed.
- Trahern, Joseph.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale