Bride-habited, but maiden-hearted': Language and Gender in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Author / Editor
Crawford, Hannah.

Title
Bride-habited, but maiden-hearted': Language and Gender in "The Two Noble Kinsmen."

Published
Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Virginia Mason Vaughan, eds. Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. 25-34.

Description
Shows that the list of hard words included in Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer's "Werkes" influenced the linguistic inventiveness of Shakespeare and Fletcher's "Two Noble Kinsmen."

Contributor
McMullan, Gordon, ed.
Cowen Orlin, Lena, ed.
Mason Vaughan, Virginia, ed.

Alternative Title
Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Language and Word Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Literary Relations