Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales. Volume II. Ed. Robert M. Correale and Mary Hamel

The first volume of this work appeared in 2002 and provided materials relating to thirteen of the Canterbury Tales. This volume has chapters on the “General Prologue”, and the tales of the Knight, Miller, Man of Law, the Wife of Bath, Summoner, Merchant, Physician, Shipman, Prioress, Sir Thopas, Canon’s Yeoman and Manciple, together with the appropriate Prologues, and the “Retraction”. The sequence of tales in each volume is, therefore, not consecutive, which makes them cumbersome to use in obvious ways. The aim of these volumes is to replace the work of the same title edited by W. F. Bryan and Germaine Dempster in 1941 (henceforward S&A), which had contributions from twenty-one scholars in twenty-seven chapters, totalling 765 pages. This second volume alone is 824 pages and draws on the expertise of eighteen scholars.

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