Animadversions on the Text of Chaucer, 1988
- Author / Editor
- Fisher, John H.
Animadversions on the Text of Chaucer, 1988
- Published
- Speculum 63 (1988): 779-93.
- Description
- The absence of holographs and of other early manuscripts, along with other evidence, suggests that Chaucer left only "foul papers" or copies of his works, especially CT and TC, in a state of more or less continual revision, from which different scribes elicited different versions after his death. Both Ellesmere and Hengwrt are edited texts; each appeals to editors of different preconceptions; neither is a "privileged text."
- Reprinted in The Emergence of Standard English (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1996), pp. 84-98.
- Alternative Title
- Emergence of Standard English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.