Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900-1995

498 Pages·2000·25.1 MB·English

by  Marilyn Sutton

Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1900 TO 19 95
Marilyn Sutton
The Pardoner's Tale is unique among the Canterbury Tales in that it showcases
a character who also makes several other appearances throughout the Tales.
One of only three pilgrims to be given a full-length prologue by Chaucer,
the Pardoner takes on a dramatic force unequaled among the pilgrims.
A research tool for specialist and graduate student alike, this volume on
Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale offers an exhaustive collection of
material from the period 1900 to 1995, abstracting and cross-referencing
book-length and chapter-length studies, sections of books and chapters,
articles, portions of articles, notes, extensive commentary in editions, and
representative study guides. There are separate sections for editions and
translations; bibliographies, indexes, studies of the manuscript, and textual
studies; sources, analogues, and influences for the Pardoner's Prologue
and Tale; the Pardoner portrait in the General Prologue; studies of the
Pardoner's interruption of the Wife of Bath, the wordes of the Hoost to the Phi-
sicien and the Pardoner; the Pardoner's Prologue; and The Pardoner's Tale.
The Chaucer Bibliographies are designed to encompass a complete listing
and assessment of scholarship and criticism on the writings of Geoffrey
Chaucer, his life, times, and historical context.
MARILYN SUTTON is a professor of English at California State University,
Dominguez Hills.
(The Chaucer Bibliographies)
The Chaucer Bibliographies
GENERAL EDITOR
Thomas Hahn University of Rochester
ADVISORY BOARD
Derek Brewer Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Emerson Brown, Jr Vanderbilt University
John Hurt Fisher University of Tennessee
David C. Fowler University of Washington
JohnLeyerle University of Toronto
Jill Mann University of Notre Dame
James J. Murphy University of California, Davis
Russell A. Peck University of Rochester
Florence H. Ridley University of California, Los Angeles
Paul Ruggiers University of Oklahoma
Chaucer's Pardoner's
Prologue and Tale
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1900 TO 1995
edited by Marilyn Sutton
Published in association with the University of Rochester by
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Toronto Buffalo London
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© University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2000
Toronto Buffalo London
Printed in Canada
ISBN 0-8020-4744-0
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Chaucer's Pardoner's prologue and tale : an annotated bibliography
1900-1995
(The Chaucer bibliographies ; 7)
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8020-4744-0
1. Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Pardoner's tale. I. Sutton, Marilyn,
1944- . II. Series.
Z8164.C428 2000 016.821'1 C99-9330940-2
University of Toronto Press acknowledges the financial assistance to its
publishing program of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario
Arts Council.
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publishing activities of the Government of Canada through the Book
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Contents
General Editor's Preface ix
Preface xv
Abbreviations xxi
Introduction xxvii
Editions 1
Bibliographies, Indexes, and Textual Studies 39
Sources, Analogues, and Influences 53
The Pardoner Portrait in the General Prologue 77
The Pardoner's Interruption of the Wife of Bath 155
The Pardoner's Prologue 169
The Pardoner's Tale 1877-1995 197
Index 407
Pardonner's Tale panel from medieval chest, circa 1400. Courtesy of the Museum of Lond
General Editor's Preface
The Chaucer Bibliographies will encompass, in a series of some eighteen
volumes, a complete listing and assessment of scholarship and criticism
on the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400), and on his life, times,
and historical context. Six volumes — on Chaucer's short poems and
Anelida andArcite, on the translations, scientific works, and apocrypha,
on the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, on the Knight's
Tale, on the Tales of the Miller, Reeve, and Cook, and on the Wife of
Bath's Prologue and Tale — have already appeared. The present
volume, on the Pardoner's Prologue and Tale, extends the coverage
of the Canterbury Tales by taking up one of the richest and most
provocative of Chaucer's portraits. Additional volumes, on the Tales
of the Physician, Squire, and Franklin, and on those of the Friar,
Summoner, Clerk, and Merchant, on the Tales of the Monk and Nun's
Priest, and, finally, on the Tales of the Second Nun, Canon's Yeoman,
Manciple, and Parson, with the Retractions, should appear during the
coming years. Each volume in the series centers on a particular work,
or a connected group of works; most contain material on backgrounds
or related writings, and several will be wholly topical in their coverage
(taking up music, the visual arts, rhetoric, the life of Chaucer, and other
relevant subjects). Although the series perforce places unswerving
emphasis on accuracy and comprehensiveness, the distinctive feature
of the Chaucer Bibliographies is the fullness and particularity of the
annotations provided for each entry. Annotations have averaged one-
third to one-half page in the first six volumes; these thick descriptions
of intellectual and critical activity (as opposed to simple itemizations or
telegraphic summaries) have constituted more than four-fifths of each
volume's content.