The Best-Text/Best-Book of Canterbury: The Dialogic of the Fragments

Author / Editor
Portnoy, Phyllis.

Title
The Best-Text/Best-Book of Canterbury: The Dialogic of the Fragments

Published
Florilegium 13 (1994): 161-72.

Description
Recent debates over editing of "Canterbury Tales" reflect "best-text" (Hengwrt) versus "best-book" (Ellesmere) views, but both sides continue to make editorial assumptions about unity and closure.
A better approach would be to recognize a genuinely dialogic relationship among all the parts, in which no single voice or order provides an authenticating perspective.

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