'I wol nat telle it yit': John Selden and a Lost Version of the Cook's Tale

Author / Editor
Beadle, Richard.

Title
'I wol nat telle it yit': John Selden and a Lost Version of the Cook's Tale

Published
Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Beadle, eds. Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), 55-66.

Description
A seventeenth-century account makes it possible to reconstruct portions of a manuscript of CT, once owned by Selden and now lost, here designated *Se2. Beadle hypothesizes that *Se2 presented a longer version of CkP than now available.

Alternative Title
Chaucer to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Shinsuke Ando.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Cook and His Tale.