Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Edited from the Hengwrt Manuscript
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F., ed.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Edited from the Hengwrt Manuscript
- Published
- London: Arnold, 1980.
- Physical Description
- vi, 707 pp.
- Description
- Following Manly and Rickert, Blake sees Hengwrt as the most reliable early manuscript, but omits links for fragments E-F, which Blake believes were added by someone other than Chaucer--i.e., those links joining SqT to MerT and MerT to FranT. Blake contends that the Ellesmere order is a later attempt to modify the Hengwrt order on more logical principles. CYT is omitted because Blake feels that it is a non-Chaucerian addition.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.