Eighteenth–Century Modernizations from the Canterbury Tales Bowden Hardback

Eighteenth-Century Modernizations from the Canterbury TalesAuthor(s): Betsy Bowden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9780859913096, 978-0859913096\nSynopsis\nThis collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so precise and extensive is available only for Chaucer among English authors. At least seventeen known and anonymous writers produced thirty-two modernised Canterbury tales during the century, plus tale links and adaptations of each other's work. The present collection contains only modernisations that have not seen print since 1796, thus excluding those by Pope and Dryden.\nAlthough most works in this collection may be examined further in several British and American libraries, others cannot. Apparently only one copy has survived of .