"The Reeve's Prologue and Tale" in the Ellesmere and Hengwrt Manuscripts.
- Author / Editor
- Elliott, Charles.
"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