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Editions:

• Bennett, J. A. W. and G. V. Smithers (Eds.). Early Middle English Verse and Prose. 2nd ed. Oxford 1968.
• Cook, A. S. (Ed.). A Literary Middle English Reader. Boston 1915.
• McKnight, G. H. (Ed.). Middle English Humorous Tales. Boston 1913.
• Sampson, G. (Ed.). The Cambridge Book of Prose and Verse, in Illustration of English Literature from the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. Cambridge 1924.

Studies:

• Brewer, Derek. "The International Medieval Comic Tale in England," in: Thomas Heffernan (Ed.). The Popular Literature of Medieval England. Knoxville 1985:131-147.
• Reinhold, Heinz. Humoristische Tendenzen in der englischen Literatur des Mittelalters. Tübingen 1953.