Word Pairs or Doublets in Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee' and Their Variant Readings: A Preliminary Examination
- Author / Editor
- Tani, Akinobu.
Word Pairs or Doublets in Chaucer's 'Tale of Melibee' and Their Variant Readings: A Preliminary Examination
- Published
- Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Michiko Ogura, eds. Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 101-13.
- Description
- Evidence from variants in manuscripts of Mel indicates that Chaucer's contemporaries accepted his use of doublets in "curial style." The variants reinforce affiliations between Hg and El and between Corpus Christi College 198 and Lansdowne 851, Cambridge; Caxton's reduction of doublets in his first edition may reflect his printing methods.
- Alternative Title
- Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Melibee
- Style and Versification
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations