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

Author / Editor
Crawforth, Hannah.

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

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

Description
Explores aspects of the diction of "The Two Noble Kinsmen," focusing on nuances derived from the glossaries in Thomas Speght's editions of Chaucer's Works, with particular attention to KnT, the source of "Kinsmen," and to issues of gender identity.

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

Alternative Title
Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception, Performance.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Knight and His Tale