Geoffrey Chaucer: The Legend of Good Women
- Author / Editor
- Cowen, Janet,and George Kane, eds.
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Legend of Good Women
- Published
- East Lansing, Mich. : Colleagues Press, 1995.
- Physical Description
- xii, 344 pp.
- Series
- Medieval Texts and Studies, no. 16.
- Description
- An edition of LGW that provides variants and textual commentary.
- The copy text for LGWP is Bodleian Library MS Tanner 346 ("Prologue I," or F-version), while Cambridge University Library MS Gg.4.27 is here edited separately ("Prologue II," or G-version).
- A complete list of variants accompanies the eclectic text. The introduction includes a description and classification of the manuscripts and analysis of the variants as they relate to emendation.
- The introduction also discusses the grammar of Chaucer's final "-e," the text of LGW in Gg.4.27, past editorial treatments of LGWP, and a justification of the copy text.
- Contributor
- Kane, George, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Legend of Good Women.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Legend of Good Women.