Could Chaucer Spell?
- Author / Editor
- Bateson, F. W.
Could Chaucer Spell?
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 25 (1975): 2-24.
- Description
- By intention Chaucer like Shakespeare was a phonetic speller, so that manuscript variations in spelling provide clues to his metrics. The text of the LGW Prologue in MS. Gg of the Cambridge University Library is perhaps the nearest to Chaucer's spelling we can get.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Legend of Good Women.