The Ellesmere Dragon.

Author / Editor
Williams, Tara.

Title
The Ellesmere Dragon.

Published
Word & Image 30 (2014): 444-54.

Description
Discusses the two marginal dragons found in the Ellesmere manuscript of CT, arguing that, like dragons in bestiaries and iconography, they "symbolize the marvelous," but in addition they also "prompt readers to attend to the marvelous aspects of Chaucer's poem." Includes 4 color illus.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies