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.

Title
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.