Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue & Tale

by Beidler, Peter G.; Biebel, Elizabeth M.

• ISBN13: 9780802043665
• ISBN10: 0802043666
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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). ELIZABETH M. BIEBEL is Adjunct Professor at Lehigh University.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface	ix
Preface	xv
Abbreviations	xix
Introduction	xxv
Editions and Translations	1	(28)
Sources and Analogues	29	(26)
The Marriage Group	55	(12)
Gentillesse	67	(6)
The Wife of Bath in the General Prologue	73	(26)
The Wife of Bath's Prologue	99	(142)
The Wife of Bath's Tale	241	(80)
Index	321