Averting Chaucer's Prophecies: Miswriting Mismetering, and Misunderstanding
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Averting Chaucer's Prophecies: Miswriting Mismetering, and Misunderstanding
- Published
- Vincent P. McCarren and Douglas Moffat, eds. A Guide to Editing Middle English (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998), pp. 79-93.
- Description
- Describes the problems of editing Chaucer's works (especially CT), observing that modern editions tend to ignore them.
- Comments on editing practices from Thomas Urry forward, focusing on how treatments of meter, punctuation, and glossing in recent editions tend to simplify the text of Chaucer.
- Alternative Title
- A Guide to Editing Middle English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.