Editing the 'Canterbury Tales': An Overview

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Editing the 'Canterbury Tales': An Overview

Published
Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication Publications, 1993), pp. 5-18.

Description
Surveys textual issues that confront editors of CT, presenting the issues as background to the "Canterbury Tales" Project. Considers problems of lineation, the incompleteness of the text, the role of the links, questions of early circulation,glosses, manuscript hierarchy, and issues of meter, spelling, and punctuation.

Alternative Title
The 'Canterbury Tales' Project Occasional Papers, Volume I.

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