"The Reeve's Prologue and Tale" in the Ellesmere and Hengwrt Manuscripts.

Author / Editor
Elliott, Charles.

Title
"The Reeve's Prologue and Tale" in the Ellesmere and Hengwrt Manuscripts.

Published
Notes and Queries 209 (1964): 167-70.

Description
Compares and contrasts the uses of northern dialectical words and forms in the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscript versions of RvT, assessing J. R. R. Tolkien's evaluations of them (1934), and extending the discussion beyond northern forms to corroborate further the superiority of the Hengwrt.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies