Editions:

  • Gardner, John (Ed.). The Alliterative Morte Arthure, The Owl and the Nightingale, and Five other Middle English Poems in a Modern Version. London 1971.
  • Ginsberg, Warren (Ed.). Wynnere and Wastoure and The Parlement of the Thre Ages. Kalamazoo 1992.
  • Gollancz, Sir Israel (Ed.). A good short Debate between Winner and Waster: An Alliterative Poem of Social and Economic Problems in England in the Year 1352 with Modern English Rendering. Oxford 1930, repr. Cambridge 1975.
  • Traherne, Elaine (Ed.). Old and Middle English: An Anthology. Oxford 2000: 581-592.
  • Trigg, Stephanie (Ed.). Wynnere and Wastoure. Oxford 1990. [EETS 297].

Studies:

  • Bestul, Thomas H. Satire and Allegory in Wynnere and Wastoure. Lincoln, Nebraska 1974.
  • Dyer, Christopher. Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England c. 1200-1520. Cambridge 1989.
  • Harrington, David V. "The Indeterminacy in Winner and Waster and the Parliament of the Three Ages," ChauR 20 (1986):246-257.
  • Johnson, Paul. The Life and Times of Edward III. London 1973.
  • Salter, Elizabeth. "The Timelessness of Wynnere and Wastoure", MAE 47 (1978):40-65.
  • Scattergood, John. "Winner and Waster and the Mid-Fourteenth-Century Economy", in: Dunne, Tom (Ed.). The Writer as Witness: Literature as Historical Evidence. Cork 1987:39-57.
  • Thrupp, Sylvia L. The Merchant Class of Medieval London
     [1300-1500]
    . London 1948.
Further Reading: W&W
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