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Rachel Speght (1597 –
death date unknown) was a poet and polemicist. She was the
first Englishwoman to
identify herself, by name, as a
polemicist and critic...
- Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and then it
appeared in
Speght's edition of Chaucer's Works.
Speght's "Life of Chaucer"
echoes Foxe's own account,
which is...
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Thomas Speght (died 1621) was an
English schoolmaster and
editor of
Geoffrey Chaucer. He was from a
Yorkshire family, and
matriculated as a
sizar of Peterhouse...
- women-hating.
Three defensive responses as
pamphlets were made by
Rachel Speght,
Ester Sowernam and
Constantia Munda. Swetnam's
pamphlet attacking women...
- 1570)
reprinted Jack
Upland and
attributed it to
Geoffrey Chaucer.
Thomas Speght's 1602
edition of Chaucer's
Works (STC 5080)
included Jack Upland. In 1968...
- jone esquier', i.e. "plusieurs
jeunes escuyers" ('other
young squires');
Speght (1598). Froissart's
account of the
history of
English monarchs includes...
- the boat were
apparently familiar to an
editor of Chaucer's
works Thomas Speght, who
remarked that Wade's boat bore the name Guingelot. To the Angles, Wade...
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became the
South Island of New Zealand. (Māori mythology) Guingelot,
Thomas Speght, an
editor or Chaucer's
works at the end of the 16th century, made a p****ing...
- 17th
century corrected a
muddled annotation to Chaucer's line by
Thomas Speght.
Walter William Skeat adopted the
derivation of
Dulcarnon from the Arabic:...
- Made by Jo. Sw. And By Him Entitled, "The
Arraignment of Women",
Rachel Speght (1617)
Ester Hath Hang'd Haman: An
Answer To a Lewd Pamphlet,
Entitled "The...
