Language and Style in Additions to 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Language and Style in Additions to 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 59-78.
- Description
- Fifteenth-century scribal additions and changes to manuscripts of CT indicate the "linguistic and stylistic prejudices and attitudes" of scribes and their audiences. Treats Hengwrt as a base text and explores how changes in Ellesmere, British Library Harley 7334, Bodley 686, and Cambridge University Library Dd.4.24 reflect a tendency to "correct" Chaucer's meter and increase his colloquialisms, not to make his diction more ornate.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Middle English Linguistics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Language and Word Studies.