Reading and Editing the Canterbury Tales : Past, Present, and Future?
- Author / Editor
- Mosser, Daniel W.
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.