The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Winny, James, ed.
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
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