Creating Comfortable Boundaries: Scribes, Editors, and the Invention of the Parson's Tale

Author / Editor
Vaughan, Míceál F.

Title
Creating Comfortable Boundaries: Scribes, Editors, and the Invention of the Parson's Tale

Published
Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 45-90.

Description
Examines the relationship of Ret to ParsT and the relation of both to CT, arguing that editors and critics have been mistaken in separating the treatise from the confession and in ascribing one to the Parson and the other to Chaucer. Manuscript rubrics and editorial history indicate that the two works might best be considered a single prose treatise wholly separate from CT, which ends with ParsP.

Alternative Title
Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.

Chaucer Subjects
Parson and His Tale.
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General.
Chaucer's Retraction.