This volume, the work of a group of Chaucerians from the
University of Adelaide, is the latest in the University of Toronto
Press's Chaucer Bibliography series, a series which aims to provide
annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works. It summarizes
twentieth-century commentary on the three fabliaux of Fragment 1 of
The Canterbury Tales: the Miller's, the Reeve's, and the Cook's
tales. There are separate sections for editions, translations and
modernizations, sources and analogues, lexicographical and
linguistic studies, for the tales considered as a group and for
each tale considered separately. Annotations are arranged
chronologically within each section, facilitating a quick grasp of
the changing critical attitudes towards these tales, and showing
how earlier neglect (resulting from embarrassment at the
naughtiness of their subject matter) has given way, in the second
half of the twentieth century, to universal admiration for their
astonishing artistry.
The general introduction and the separate section introductions
comment on and evaluate the varying critical approaches. The
detailed index facilitates research on particular characters,
themes, or approaches, as well as on the work of individual
commentators.
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