A Chaucer Dictionary: Proper Names and Allusions, Excluding Place Names
- Author / Editor
- Dillon, Bert.
A Chaucer Dictionary: Proper Names and Allusions, Excluding Place Names
- Published
- Boston: G. K. Hall, 1974.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 266 pp.
- Description
- An alphabetical dictionary that lists people, personifications, and allusions (direct and indirect) in Chaucer's works, providing brief identifications and exhaustive citations of occurrences. Entries for sources, such as the Bible, Boccaccio, Dante, etc., cite in parallel columns the passages in the original sources and Chaucer's uses of them.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Bibliographies, Reports, and Reference
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations