Stemmatic Analysis of the Fifteenth-Century Witnesses to the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, Peter.
Stemmatic Analysis of the Fifteenth-Century Witnesses to the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- 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. 69-132.
- Description
- Analyzes textual variants of WBP, using the data and computer analysis available on Robinson's "The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM". Corroborates Manly and Rickert's A, B, C, and D groupings and their affiliations, suggests two more (E, F) that are affiliated, and identifies several independent lines of descent.
- Confirms the preeminence of Hengwrt and describes the implications of characteristic variants of each manuscript grouping. Clarifies the two exemplars of Ellesmere and describes in detail the source and transmission of the so-called added passages.
- Alternative Title
- The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.