Geoffrey Chaucer: Textual Transmission and Editing

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer: Textual Transmission and Editing

Published
A. J. Minnis and Charlotte Brewer, eds. Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), pp. 19-38.

Description
Critiques Root's and Windeatt's editions of TC for their lack of a clear and consistent theory of textual transmission and explores the problems of producing a valid edition of CT, exposing difficulties by examining the limitations of the Riverside edition.

Alternative Title
Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.