Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography 1900 - 1995

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 Bibliography series, a series that aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works. The volume summarizes twentieth-century commentary on Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There are six sections in 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 Tale.

The editors have assembled a comprehensive bibliography covering not only standard English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies sources, but also lesser-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.