Chaucer's Censured Ballads

Author / Editor
Rex, Richard.

Title
Chaucer's Censured Ballads

Published
Richard Rex. "The Sins of Madame Eglentyne" and Other Essays on Chaucer (Newark, N.J.: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses, 1995), pp. 27-33.

Description
Assesses the textual history and canonicity of two ballads of a manuscript owned by John Shirley, now British Museum Additional MS 16165.
The two ballads have not received serious consideration because they have been omitted from Chaucer's canon--one of them apparently because of its obscene content.

Alternative Title
"The Sins of Madame Eglentyne" and Other Essays on Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha.