Another Late-Fourteenth-Century Case of Dialect-Awareness
- Author / Editor
- Clark, Cecily.
Another Late-Fourteenth-Century Case of Dialect-Awareness
- Published
- English Studies 62 (1981): 504-505.
- Description
- The use of regional dialects in RvT and the "Second Shepherd's Play" indicates a sporadic literary exploitation of dialect differences in the fourteenth century and implies an ability, at least among the educated, to classify the different dialects heard.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale.