Chaucer's Text and the Web of Words

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Chaucer's Text and the Web of Words

Published
Donald M. Rose, ed. New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism (Norman Okla.: Pilgrim Books, 1981), pp. 223-40.

Description
Studies based uncritically upon the Robinson text may have produced questionable readings in CT: KnT, ParsT and Prol, ClT, ShT, GP, RvT, MilT, NPT. The Hengwrt MS, currently being used for the "Variorum Chaucer" and by Blake, is the earliest manuscript and the best text.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General.