ENGL 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smoot, Ellesmere Chaucer, Drope
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The canterbury tales, the prioress, the chaucer pilgrim, authorship in the middle ages, sentence and solaas, rhetoric. The canterbury tales: written sometime between late 1380s and 1400, unfinished, 84 pre-1500 manuscripts contain the canterbury tales or parts thereof. The ellesmere manuscript: an elaborate, well-made manuscript that forms the basis for most modern editions, scribe identified as adam pinkhurst. Likel(cid:455) (cid:272)opied sho(cid:396)tl(cid:455) afte(cid:396) chau(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:859)s death first decade of 15th century. It fails to account for the social mobility and growing middle-class in fourteenth-century. 35 but natheles, whyl i have tyme and space. Er that i ferther in this tale pace, Of ech of hem, so as it semed me, 40 and whiche they weren, and of what degree. And eek in what array that they were inne; (gp, 35-42) That of hir smyling was ful simple and coy-120 hire gretteste ooth was but by seynte loy; And frensh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
