Copy-Text and Its Variants in Some Recent Chaucer Editions

Author / Editor
Dane, Joseph A.

Title
Copy-Text and Its Variants in Some Recent Chaucer Editions

Published
Studies in Bibliography 44 (1991): 164-83.

Description
Examines the use and misuse of W. W. Greg's term "copy-text" in recent editions of Chaucer and in the Kane-Donaldson Piers Plowman. Confusions among "copy-text," "base text," and "best text" will be alleviated only when editors use the terms accurately and consistently.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.