The Significance of the Early Chaucer Manuscript Glossesm (with Special References to the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue')
- Author / Editor
- Caie, Graham D.
The Significance of the Early Chaucer Manuscript Glossesm (with Special References to the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue')
- Published
- Chaucer Review 10 (1976): 350-60.
- Description
- Glosses to the early manuscripts of CT may be read as important commentaries on the text. In particular glosses to WBT point out the wife's misquotations and, ultimately, her spiritual deafness to the New Law and the deeper meaning of marriage.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.