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"Assuming no previous linguistic knowledge, this book introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than modern translation. The book leads students gently through basic linguistic concepts with appropriate explanation, highlighting how Chaucer's language differs from present-day English and the significance of this for interpreting his work. Close analysis and comparison with other writers...
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"This is an edition of the six complete pageants which together form the major part of the Wakefield Group in the Towneley cycle. Although they were probably written by the same playwright and are certainly among the best pageants written for the religious stage in medieval England, they have not been edited before as a group. Two, Magnus Herodes and the Coliphizacio, have not been reprinted since 1897, except by the Early English Text Society in...
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"The first chapter endeavours to provide . . . the more important facts of Chaucer's pronunciation and grammar and a few hints about his prosody. . . . The remaining chapters of the book are a conducted tour along some of the more interesting highways and byways of Chaucer's English: his use of colloquialisms and slang, technical language, literary terms, proper names, oaths, and the like. . . . Chapter 3 looks at the language of the four prose works...
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