Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale

Published
Takami Matsuda, Richard A. Linenthal, and John Scahill, eds. The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya (Cambridge: Brewer; Tokyo: Yushodo, 2004), pp. 87-98.

Description
Considers the inclusion of Gamelyn in early manuscripts of CT and the relative confidence with which scribes placed the tale. Given the possibility that some manuscripts predate Chaucer's death, he may have experimented with including the tale, even if he did not compose it.

Alternative Title
The Medieval Book and a Modern Collector: Essays in Honour of Toshiyuki Takamiya.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies