Make Room for Daddy: Translating Chaucer into American.

Author / Editor
Fisher, Sheila.

Title
Make Room for Daddy: Translating Chaucer into American.

Published
Chronicle of Higher Education 58, no. 33 (2012): B14-B15.

Description
Identifies difficulties in translating Chaucer for American audiences: linguistic difficulties (especially false cognates such as "countrefete" and "lust") and several social changes that make Chaucer the "absent father in the United States."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Language and Word Studies