Caxton in the Middle of English.
- Author / Editor
- Matthews, David.
Caxton in the Middle of English.
- Published
- Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 138-52.
- Description
- Gauges Tudor awareness of and attitudes toward earlier English, comparing comments and lexical choices made by William Caxton in two of his printed volumes: the second edition of CT and John of Trevisa’s translation of Ranulf Higden’s "Polychronicon." Although the latter evinces “much more of a sense of a linguistic and historical break” with the past than does the CT edition, Caxton's "updating [of] lexical choices" indicates that he was "adding the patina of modernity" rather than acting on a perceived break with the linguistic past.
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
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