Chaucer's Metre and Scribal Editing in the Early Manuscripts of 'The Canterbury Tales'
- Author / Editor
- Solopova, Elizabeth.
Chaucer's Metre and Scribal Editing in the Early 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. 143-64.
- Description
- The metrical and stylistic habits reflected in the variants of WBP manuscripts Hengwrt, Ellesmere, Gg, Ha4, CP, and Dd indicate scribal rather than authorial origins. In comparison with Hengwrt, Ellesmere does not reflect a consistent effort to improve meter, but in the first half of WBP Ellesmere shares with Gg a relatively formal style. Ha4 and Cp reflect consistent metrical revision; Dd, somewhat less consistent metrical revision.
- Alternative Title
- The Canterbury Tales Project Occasional Papers, Volume II.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Style and Versification.