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sources and analogues of the canterbury tales pb set
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 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 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 chaucers copies .
hardcover boydell & brewer 2009 isbn13 9781843841913 isbn10 1843841916
abridged n isbn 13 9781843841913 number in series 1 number of pages 824 publisher boydell & brewer release date 62135769600000 series title chaucer studies