Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales [pb set]

An indispensable volume that gathers together the fruits of source and analogue scholarship...providing a coherent and full account of the relationship between them and Chaucer's narratives.

MEDIUM AEVUMThe 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.