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Article: Sources and Analogues of 'The Canterbury Tales'.(Book review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2007
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Sources and Analogues of 'The Canterbury Tales', Vol. II, ed. Robert M. Correale and Mary Hamel, Chaucer Studies 35 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2005), xvi + 824 pp. ISBN 1-84384-048-0. $150.00/75.00 [pounds sterling].
This volume completes the revision of Sources and Analogues of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' by W. F. Bryan and Germaine Dempster (1941). It provides original-language and translated versions of the texts, includes for the first time chapters on the General Prologue and Retraction, augments the claims of Volume I that Boccaccio's Decameron is a significant influence on Chaucer's work, and raises questions about the ...