Editing the 'Canterbury Tales': Preliminary Observations
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Editing the 'Canterbury Tales': Preliminary Observations
- Published
- Anglia 116 (1998): 198-214.
- Description
- Referring to "The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM" (Studies In the Age Of Chaucer 20 [1998], no.11), Blake concludes that Hengwrt should be used as the base text for the "Canterbury Tales" Project. He proposes three areas in which Hengwrt might be emended against other witnesses: the addition to Hengwrt of substantial passages found in some other manuscripts; emendations of minor omissions and deletions from Hengwrt; and correction of the spelling of Hengwrt.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.