Textual Variants in Chaucer's 'House of Fame': Thynne as Editor
- Author / Editor
- Finlayson, John.
Textual Variants in Chaucer's 'House of Fame': Thynne as Editor
- Published
- English Studies 70 (1989): 385-94.
- Description
- Adduces evidence that Thynne's edition of 1523 is the work of a careful, conservative editor. Thynne did not invent his unique readings but based them on Caxton, Fairfax, and Bodley. In other words, his HF "is truly an edition."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- House of Fame.