Chaucer's Spelling Reconsidered
- Author / Editor
- Benson, Larry D.
Chaucer's Spelling Reconsidered
- Published
- English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700 03 (1992): 1-28.
- Description
- Doubtful of M. L. Samuels's argument that Equat is Chaucer's work, Benson examines dominate and recessive spelling forms to argue that it is not. Compares spelling in Equat with that of various manuscripts of TC and CT.
- Reprinted in Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney, eds. Contradictions: From "Beowulf" to Chaucer (Aldershot, Hant.: Scolar; Brookfield, Vt: Ashgate, 1995).
- Alternative Title
- Contradictions: From "Beowulf" to Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Equatorie of the Planetis.