Chaucer's Tell-Tale Lexicon: Romancing Seinte Cecyle
- Author / Editor
- Weise, Judith A.
Chaucer's Tell-Tale Lexicon: Romancing Seinte Cecyle
- Published
- Style 31 (1997): 440-79.
- Description
- Statistical analysis, based on Mersand's still-valid assumption that Chaucer's romance vocabulary increased throughout his career, establishes different dates for the composition of different parts of SNT. The first part was probably written in the early 1380s, perhaps as oblique "avoidance behavior" in connection with the Cecilia de Chaumpaigne affair. The second part was written in the mid-1390s, when SNT was incorporated into CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and Her Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.
- Chaucer's Life.