Scribal Agendas and the Text of Chaucer's Tales in British Library MS Harley 7333
- Author / Editor
- Kline, Barbara.
Scribal Agendas and the Text of Chaucer's Tales in British Library MS Harley 7333
- 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. 116-44.
- Description
- Examines scribal interventions in the CT portion of British Library MS Harley 7333 (produced at Leicester Abbey) as examples of "ideological editing." Its corrections, variants, and omissions indicate efforts to suppress Chaucer's criticism of the Church but not to suppress his bawdiness. Discusses the production of the manuscript and includes a description of its contents.
- Alternative Title
- Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.