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A modern 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 a fresh interpretation of Chaucers sources for the frame of the work, chapters on the sources of the General Prologue and Retractions, and modern English translations of all foreign language texts. Chapters on the individual tales contain survey 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 other familiar sources are re-edited from manuscripts closer to Chaucers copies. Volume I includes chapters on the Frame and the tales of the Reeve, Cook, Friar, Clerk, Squire, Franklin, Pardoner, Melibee, Monk, Nuns Priest, Second Nun and Parson. Chapters on the other tales, together with the General Prologue and Retractions will appear in Volume II.
List of contents
The frame, Helen Cooper; the reeve's tale, Peter G. Beidler; the cook's tale, John Scattergood; the friar's tale, Peter Nicholson; the clerk's tale, Thomas J. Farrell and Amy W. Goodwin; the squire's tale, Vincent DiMarco; the franklin's tale, Robert R. Edwards; the pardoner's prologue and tale, Mary Hamel; the tale of Melibee, William R. Askins; the monk's tale, Thomas H. Bestul; the nun's priest's tale, Edward Wheatley; the second nun's prologue and tale, Sherry L. Reames; the parson's tale, Richard Newhauser.
