Some Readings in the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Donaldson, E. Talbot.
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.