Some Readings in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Donaldson, E. Talbot.

Title
Some Readings in the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
J. B. Bessinger and R. Raymo, eds. Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein (New York: New York University Press, 1976), pp. 99-110.

Description
A detailed commentary upon "armee" in the description of the Knight (1.60) in GP; upon the homeoteleuton in the description of the Friar (11. 252a-b); upon "fyue" in Prologue to WBT (11. 44a-f) as an omission in some mss due to the scribal "yielding to the urgency implicit in a numerical sequence"; and upon "pisse" for mss "pees" in the interchange between the Friar and Summoner at the end of the Prologue to WBT (1. 838)

Alternative Title
Medieval Studies in Honor of Lillian Herlands Hornstein.

Chaucer Subjects
Knight and His Tale.
Friar and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.