The Use of Manuscript Variants for the Study of Chaucer's Ye and Thou (with Special Reference to the Wife of Bath's Prologue)
- Author / Editor
- Shimonomoto, Keiko.
The Use of Manuscript Variants for the Study of Chaucer's Ye and Thou (with Special Reference to the Wife of Bath's Prologue)
- Published
- Keiko Shimonomoto. The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles (SAC 26 [2004], no. 151), pp. 93-100.
- Description
- Examines scribal uses of ye versus thou in manuscripts of WBP, excluding the so-called "additional" passages. Variants indicate that second-person pronouns were subject to individual manipulation for "interpersonal goals or creative effects."
- Originally published in the Goken Forum (Waseda University) 8 (1997).
- Alternative Title
- The Use of Ye and Thou in the Canterbury Tales, and Collected Articles.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.