Long-awaited companion to the highly acclaimed first volume.
The publication of this volume completes the new edition of the sources and major analogues of all the
Canterbury Tales prepared by members of the New Chaucer Society. This collection, the first to appear in over half a century, features such additions as a fresh interpretation of Chaucer’s sources for the frame of the work, chapters on the sources of the
General Prologue and
Retractions, and modern English translations of all foreignlanguage texts, with glosses for the Middle English. Chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source materials. Several sources and analogues discovered during the past fifty years are found here together for the first time, and some other familiar sources are re-edited from manuscripts closer to Chaucer’s copies.
Besides the
General Prologue and the
Retractions, this volume includes chapters on the Miller, Summoner, Merchant, Physician, Shipman, Prioress, Sir Thopas, Canon’s Yeoman, Manciple, the Knight and the prologues and tales of the Man of Law and Wife of Bath.
Contributors: PETER BEIDLER, KENNETH A. BLEETH, LAUREL BROUGHTON, JOANNE CHARBONNEAU, WILLIAM E. COLEMAN, CAROLYN P. COLLETTE, VINCENT DI MARCO, PETER FIELD, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, ANITA OBERMEIER, ROBERT RAYMO, CHRISTINE RICHARDSON-HEY, JOHN SCATTERGOOD, NIGEL S.THOMPSON, EDWARD WHEATLEY, JOHN WITHRINGTON.
Table of Content
General Prologue – Robert R Raymo
The Knight’s Tale – William E Coleman
The Miller’s Tale – Peter G Beidler
The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale – Robert M. Correale ***
The Wife of Bath’s Prologue – and Traugott Lawler
The Wife of Bath’s Tale – John Withrington and Peter J.C. Field
The Summoner’s Tale – Christine Richardson-Hay
The Merchant’s Tale – Nigel S Thompson
The Physician’s Tale – Kenneth Bleeth
The Shipman’s Tale – John Scattergood
The Prioress’s Tale – Laurel Broughton
The Tale of Sir Thopas – Joanne A Charbonneau
The Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale – Vincent Di Marco and Carolyn P Collette
The Manciple’s Tale – Edward Wheatley
Chaucer’s Retraction – Anita Obermeier
About the author
CAROLYN COLLETTE is an American literary critic whose work has focused on late Medieval Anglo-French literary culture. She is Professor Emerita of English literature at Mount Holyoke College.
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