Site Bibliography

Beidler, Peter G., ed. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath. Boston and New York: Bedford-St. Martin's, 1996.

Blake, N. F., "The Wife of Bath and Her Tale." Leeds Studies in English 13 (1982): 42-55.

Annotation from the Studies in the Age of Chaucer Online Bibliography:
Manuscript evidence suggests Chaucer's developing conception of the Wife in her GP portrait, the shorter prologue found in some MSS, the tale, and references made in ClT, MerT, and Buk. Some passages were added to WBT at a later date.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 2nd. ed. Ed. F.N. Robinson: Houghton Mifflin Boston, Mass. 1957. Online. The Canterbury tales text from the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center. 1993. <http://etext.virginia.edu/mideng.browse.html> (14 Sept. 1999).

Cooper, Helen. Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

Damrosch, David, gen. ed. Longman Anthology of British Literature. New York: Longman, 1999.

Davis, Norman, et al. A Chaucer Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

Kennedy, Beverly. "Contradictory Responses to the Wife of Bath as Evidenced by Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Variants." In Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II (London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communications, 1997), pp. 23-39.

---. "Cambridge Ms. Dd.4.24: A Misogynous Scribal Revision of the Wife of Bath's Prologue?" Chaucer Review 30 (1996) 343-58.

Annotation from the Studies in the Age of Chaucer Online Bibliography:
Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 contains a unique version of WBP: it adds five antifeminist passages and renumbers the Wife's husbands, making that section more organized and coherent. It is not possible to determine whether these changes were the work of Chaucer or that of later scribes.

---. "Making the Most of Variance." Canterbury Tales: Who Needs Witnesses? 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo. 8 May 1999.

Manly, John M., and Edith Rickert. The Text of the Canterbury Tales. 8 vols. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1940.

Moorman, Charles. Editing the Middle English Manuscript. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1975.

Prendergast, Thomas A., and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Autentic Text, 1400-1602. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1999.

Robinson, Peter M.W., "An Approach to the Manuscripts of the Wife of Bath's Prologue." In Ian Lancashire, ed., Computer-Based Chaucer Studies. Toronto: Center for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto,1993.

Solopova, Elizabeth, "The Problem of Authorial Variants in the Wife of Bath's Prologue." In Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II (London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communications, 1997), pp. 133-42.

Annotation from the Studies in the Age of Chaucer Online Bibliography:
Analyzes the manuscript variants of the so-called added passages of WBP, concluding that the passages were composed by Chaucer and that they extend from a single exemplar, probably an unfinished authorial draft.