Thomas A. PrendergastThomas A. Prendergast is Professor of English at the College of Wooster, Ohio. He is the author of Chaucer's Dead Body: From Corpse to Corpus (2004) and Poetical Dust: Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain (2015); he is co-editor of Rewriting Chaucr: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400–1602 (1999). Read More Read Less