The Injuries of Time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght and Wade's Boat.

Description: Interrogates features of the reception of Chaucer from Thomas Speght's editions of 1598 and 1602 to twentieth-first century criticism, focusing on the poet's reference to Wade and his boat in MerT 4.1423-26. Discloses the critical legacy of the "cultural repression" of a "form of women's knowledge" in the commentary on the passage, particularly Speght's annotation and later scholarly and medievalist discussions that either infer once-known lost narratives or are in the "tradition of imaginative etymologizing."

Chaucer Subjects: Merchant and His Tale
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