An Approach to the Manuscripts of the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Author / Editor
Robinson, Peter.

Title
An Approach to the Manuscripts of the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'

Published
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 17-47.

Description
Indicates the enormous variation in manuscripts of CT by summarizing variants between the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts of WBP--thus providing evidence of the need for computer-assisted collation and recension. Surveys practical difficulties of transcription for machine-readable texts and summarizes advantages of the program "Collate" for developing precise stemmata. Explains the program's basis in cladistic analysis of evolutionary biology.

Alternative Title
Computer-Based Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.