The Rewriting of the Wife of Bath's Prologue in Cambridge Dd.4.24
- Author / Editor
- Kennedy, Beverly.
The Rewriting of the Wife of Bath's Prologue in Cambridge Dd.4.24
- Published
- Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 203-33.
- Description
- Argues that the five "additional" passages of WBP (44a-f, 575-84, 609-12, 619-26, and 717-20) and the renumbering of the Wife's five husbands are scribal changes marked by "clerical misogyny and misogamy." These attitudes are elsewhere evident in the scribal practices of Cambridge Dd.4.24, although the changes may have been introduced earlier in the textual history of WBP.
- Alternative Title
- Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.