Can We Trust the Hengwrt Manuscript?
- Author / Editor
- Robinson, Peter.
Can We Trust the Hengwrt Manuscript?
- Published
- Geoffrey Lester, ed. Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 194-217.
- Description
- Surveys evidence-from publications of the Canterbury Tales Project-affirming that the Hengwrt manuscript "has the best text [of the poem], where it has text, but it may not have all the text which Chaucer wrote, nor have it all in the best order, nor spell the text as Chaucer spelt it."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Canterbury Tales--General.