The Textual Tradition of the "Canterbury Tales"
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
The Textual Tradition of the "Canterbury Tales"
- Published
- London, Caulfield East, and Baltimore, Md.: Edward Arnold, 1985.
- Description
- By manuscript evidence Blake justifies his position that of CT only what appears in Hengwrt can be attributed to Chaucer. He attributes all the early manuscripts to a single copy text assembled from Chaucer's own copies after his death. For best order those in charge arranged the segments, supplying links.
- This process started in Hengwrt with the MerE-SqH and Merchant-Franklin links and included MLE in CYP. Blake theorizes that Chaucer's poetry was known to contemporaries only through oral performances.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.