Transcribing and Analyzing the Lerned and Lewed Music of Chaucer's Chickens
- Author / Editor
- Thomas, Paul R.
Transcribing and Analyzing the Lerned and Lewed Music of Chaucer's Chickens
- Published
- Susan Yager and Elise E. Morse-Gagné, eds. Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord (Provo, UT: Chaucer Studio Press, 2013), pp. 79-96.
- Description
- In NPT, Chaucer combines a learned, polysyllabic vocabulary with Anglo-Saxon, monosyllabic words. Shifts in vocabulary create the tale's mock-heroic tone, as a "drop" from Latinate to English words at the end of a passage undercuts the preceding lines. Syllable length and stress play a part in the complex, musical aurality of the tale.
- Alternative Title
- Interpretation and Performance: Essays for Alan Gaylord.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies
- Style and Versification