Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland

Author / Editor
Maley, Willy.

Title
Spenser's Irish English: Language and Identity in Early Modern Ireland

Published
Studies in Philology 91 (1994): 417-31.

Description
Spenser's Irish English was modeled both on Chaucer's language and on an archaic dialect of English that survived in Elizabethan Ireland. The "Old English peasantry" in Spenser's Ireland spoke a form of English similar to Chaucer's.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.