Infantilizing the Father : Chaucer Translations and Moral Regulation

Author / Editor
Matthews, David.

Title
Infantilizing the Father : Chaucer Translations and Moral Regulation

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22: 93-114, 2000.

Description
Surveys translations and bowdlerizations of The Canterbury Tales from ca. 1870 to the present, identifying variations on the tendency to present the work as morally regulatory or innocent. Focuses on adaptations by Mary (Mrs. H. R.) Haweis, Charles Cowden Clarke, Frank Ernest Hill, and Eleanor Farjeon.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.