The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Winny, James, ed.

Title
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.

Physical Description
iv, 139 pp.

Series
Selected Tales from Chaucer.

Description
Middle English edition of WBPT, with end-of-text notes and glossary. The Introduction (pp. 1-28) discusses sources, the relation of WBP to WBT, themes, etc., with additional comments on the text and Chaucer's usage. Includes Chaucer's Gent and a selection from "Theophrastus on Marriage" as appendices.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Gentilesse