The Scribes as Chaucer's Early Critics
- Author / Editor
- Windeatt, Barry
The Scribes as Chaucer's Early Critics
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 1 (1979): 119-142.
- Description
- Scribal transcription of Chaucer's work offer line-by-line "active readings" through numerous intentional variations in word choice and syntax. Comparisons of the mss. yield inverse criticism which reflects the scribes' tendency for poetic cliche and emphasizes Chaucer's originality.
- Reprinted in Daniel J. Pinti, "Writings After Chaucer" (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 27-44.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.