Chaucer: The House of Fame

Author / Editor
Havely, Nicholas R., ed.

Title
Chaucer: The House of Fame

Published
Durham: Durham Medieval Texts, Department of English; Provo, Ut.: Chaucer Studio, 1994.

Physical Description
viii, 216 pp.

Series
Durham Medieval Texts, no. 11.

Description
An edition of HF based on a collation of all five witnesses (three menuscripts plus editions of Caxton and Thynne), with a substantial, though incomplete, set of variants.
Bodleian MS Fairfax 16 is the base text and the exemplar for spelling. The introduction includes descriptions of the witnesses and discussions of fate, language, versification, "intertextualities," "poetics," and Chaucer's use of the grotesque.
The text is lightly glossed, and the volume includes a glossary, an index of proper names, and fifty-three pages of explanatory notes.

Alternative Title
House of Fame.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
House of Fame.