The Virgule in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
The Virgule in the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Published
- Loren C. Gruber, ed. Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr. (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen Press, 2000), pp. 361-86.
- Description
- Concludes that either the virgule replicates Chaucer's own mark, or its rather uniform placement signals a scribal practice not yet fully understood.
- Alternative Title
- Essays on Old, Middle, Modern English and Old Icelandic in Honor of Raymond P. Tripp, Jr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.