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Reference Bibliographies & Indexes

Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale

An Annotated Bibliography 1900 - 1995

compiled by Peter Beidler & Elizabeth M. Biebel

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Initial publish date
Oct 1998
Category
Bibliographies & Indexes
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802043665
    Publish Date
    Oct 1998
    List Price
    $101
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442672925
    Publish Date
    Oct 1998
    List Price
    $122

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One of Chaucer's most popular and complex characters, the Wife of Bath has inspired a rich and diverse range of published scholarship. This work is the latest in the University of Toronto Press's Chaucer Bibliographies series, a series which aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works, and summarizes twentieth-century commentary on the Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There are six sections to the bibliography, with items arranged chronologically in each section: editions and translations, sources and analogues, the marriage group, gentillesse or nobility, the General Prologue, the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the actual Tale.

The editors have assembled a comprehensive bibliography covering not only standard English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies sources, but also less well-known references and items published in languages other than English. Developments in Chaucer criticism are traced and grouped thematically, a particular benefit for those approaching Chaucerian studies for the first time.

About the authors

PETER G. BEIDLER is a Professor of English at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1968. He is also the author of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath: Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism (Bedford Books, 1996).

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ELIZABETH M. BIEBEL is Adjunct Professor at Lehigh University.

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