'The Book of the Duchess', Lines 31-96: Are They a Forgery?
- Author / Editor
- Phillips, Helen.
'The Book of the Duchess', Lines 31-96: Are They a Forgery?
- Published
- English Studies 67 (1986): 113-21.
- Description
- Contrary to N. F. Blake, textual evidence does not support a rejection of Thynne's edition and his unique lines 31-96 for BD; nor do textual and linguistic matters prove their authenticity. The passage fits into the poem and its thematic patterns very well, and many details look back to Chaucer's French sources. Since Thynne made no identified forgeries himself, no likely forger is known.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.