The 'Canterbury Tales,' D117: 'Wrighte' or 'Wight'?
- Author / Editor
- Green, Richard Firth
The 'Canterbury Tales,' D117: 'Wrighte' or 'Wight'?
- Published
- Notes and Queries 241 (1996): 259-61.
- Description
- Challenges E. Talbot Donaldson's emendation of the Hengwrt reading "wight" (WBP 117); "wright" is acceptable Middle English syntax, makes good sense as it stands, and accords well with contemporary notions of God's perfect design of the sexual organs.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and her Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.