The Reeve's Tale (version)

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The Reeve's Tale: Version Prepared for Recitation at the 'Summer Diversions'
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EditorJ.R.R. Tolkien
PublisherOxford: Privately printed
Released1939
FormatBooklet
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The Reeve's Tale: Version Prepared for Recitation at the 'Summer Diversions' is J.R.R. Tolkien's version of Chaucer's Reeve's Tale, it was printed as pamphlets in 1939 in Oxford.

It contains a two-page introduction, and a reworked text of The Reeve's Tale by Chaucer.

The text was reprinted in 2008 in Tolkien Studies: Volume 5, and was quoted from in the 2019 book Tolkien's Lost Chaucer.

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