Chaucer's Final -E: Some Discourse Consideration

Author / Editor
Richardson, Peter.

Title
Chaucer's Final -E: Some Discourse Consideration

Published
Chaucer Review 28 (1993): 83-93.

Description
Like the "Gawain" poet, Chaucer manipulates tense for narrative purposes, often using the historical present to accentuate "key events, characters, and descriptions." Some of Chaucer's endings may have been added by scribes, making his exact methodology more difficult to determine.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.