Metrical Problems in Editing 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Cowen, Janet M.
Metrical Problems in Editing 'The Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Derek Pearsall, ed. Manuscripts and Texts (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1987), pp. 26-33.
- Description
- In editing Chaucer, the problem of the final "-e" can be resolved "in a conservative edition by retaining the spelling of the base manuscript and in a modernised edition by regularising it." Cowen and George Kane, editors of LGW (in progress), treat the final "-e" not as a mere feature of spelling but in its metrical function. Spellings from the manuscripts are not reliable indicators of meter.
- Alternative Title
- Manuscripts and Texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Legend of Good Women.