The Alternative Reading of 'The Canterbury Tales': Chaucer's Text and the Early Manuscripts
- Author / Editor
- Owen, Charles A.,Jr.
The Alternative Reading of 'The Canterbury Tales': Chaucer's Text and the Early Manuscripts
- Published
- PMLA 97 (1982): 237-50.
- Description
- Manuscript evidence indicates that only after Chaucer's death did editors assemble copies of individual tales and links to arrange the fragments (reflecting various stages of development in Chaucer's plan) into their differing ideas of a coherent book.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.