Redefining Critical Editions

Author / Editor
Robinson, Peter

Title
Redefining Critical Editions

Published
George P. Landow and Paul Delany, eds. The Digital Word: Text-based Computing in the Humanities (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 271-91.

Description
Critiques print-based critical editions of CT and "Piers Plowman," arguing that they are based on spelling- and punctuation-normalized texts that disguise so-called accidentals and may confuse the difference between accidentals and substantive variants. Recommends production of electronic editions and describes efforts to do so with WBP.

Alternative Title
The Digital Word: Text-based Computing in the Humanities.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.