Reading and Editing the Canterbury Tales : Past, Present, and Future?

Author / Editor
Mosser, Daniel W.

Title
Reading and Editing the Canterbury Tales : Past, Present, and Future?

Published
Text 7 (1994): 201-32.

Description
Demonstrates the "openness" and "dynamic character" of the CT text by detailing how early scribes and editors dealt with various lacuna left by Chaucer.
Describes how some apocryphal materials and various links between tales are presented in manuscripts, arguing that while traditional editions cannot reflect them, such materials can and should be made available through hypertext.

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