Chaucer, Gamelyn and the Cook's Tale
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
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