The Implausible Plausibility of the "Prologue to the Tale of Beryn.”
- Author / Editor
- Prendergast, Thomas A.
The Implausible Plausibility of the "Prologue to the Tale of Beryn.”
- Published
- Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 125-37.
- Description
- Considers possible motives for the "Beryn" scribe to include the "Prologue" and the "Tale of Beryn" in one of the CT mansucripts that he copied, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, MS 455 (Nl), arguing that he was responding to the "agency of the text," i.e., to a medieval kind of intentionality attributable to the literary work rather than to its author, theorized by Mary Carruthers. Treats the two "Beryn" works as "non-Chaucerian Chauceriana," similar in this regard to other spurious links and tales.
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
Manuscripts and Textual Studies