Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale: an annotated bibliography 1900 to 2000

Edited book


Goodall, Peter (ed.) 2009. Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale: an annotated bibliography 1900 to 2000. Toronto, Canada. University of Toronto.
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Chaucer's Monk's Tale and Nun's Priest's Tale: an annotated bibliography 1900 to 2000

Book CategoryEdited book
EditorsGoodall, Peter
Number of Pages530
SeriesThe Chaucer Bibliographies
Year2009
PublisherUniversity of Toronto
Place of PublicationToronto, Canada
ISBN9780802093202
Abstract

Of all the stories that comprise The Canterbury Tales, certain ones have attracted more attention than others in terms of literary scholarship and canonization. The Monk's Tale, for instance, was popular in the decades after Chaucer's death, but has since suffered critical neglect, particularly in the twentieth century. The opposite has occurred with the Nun's Priests Tale, which has long been one of the most popular and widely discussed of the tales, cited by some critics as the most essentially 'Chaucerian' of them all.

This annotated bibliography is a record of all editions, translations, and scholarship written on The Monk's Tale and the Nun's Priest's Tale in the twentieth century with a view to revisiting the former and creating a comprehensive scholarly view of the latter. A detailed introduction summarizes all extant writings on the two tales and their relationship to each other, giving a sense of the complexity of Chaucer's seminal work and the unique function of its component stories. By dealing with these two tales in particular, this bibliography suggests the complicated critical reception and history of The Canterbury Tales.

KeywordsChaucer; bibliography; Canterbury Tales; Monk's Tale; Nun's Priest's Tale
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020470504. British and Irish literature
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