Editorial Assumptions and the Manuscripts of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Horobin, Simon.
Editorial Assumptions and the Manuscripts of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Published
- Norman Blake and Peter Robinson, eds. The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II (London: King's College, Office for Humanities Communications, 1997), pp. 15-21.
- Description
- Demonstrates the dangers of over-reliance on Hengwrt, Ellesmere, or any limited number of privileged manuscripts in establishing the text of CT, arguing for attention to all available material.
- Uses Ad3 (British Library MS Additional 35286) to show (1) how its unique ordering of tales may preserve an early stage in Chaucer's composition process and (2) how two passages that Ad3 shares only with Ellesmere (FranT 1455-56, 1493-98) may preserve an authorial revision.
- Alternative Title
- The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Franklin and His Tale.