Delimiting Chaucerian Obscenity in Caxton's Second Edition of "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Flannery, Mary.
Delimiting Chaucerian Obscenity in Caxton's Second Edition of "The Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Review of English Studies 73, no. 310 (2022): 442-58.
- Description
- Examines Caxton's deletions from his first to his second edition of CT, showing that most of them were "bawdy spurious verse." Argues that the deletions evince Caxton's awareness of Chaucer's own "ribaldry" and that—not concerned with obscenity per se—he was anxious to present only the poet's own works.
- Chaucer Subjects
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