On Editing the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
On Editing the 'Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- P. L. Heyworth, ed. Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), 101-19.
- Description
- Most if not all early scribes used Hg, which avoided editorial tampering--i. e., introduction of new tales and links, revision of order of tales, "corrections" of lines, words, spellings. "The best an editor can do is follow Hg closely."
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Studies for J. A. W. Bennett.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.