'I Endowed Thy Purposes' : Shakespeare, Editing, and Middle English Literature

Author / Editor
Machan, Tim William.

Title
'I Endowed Thy Purposes' : Shakespeare, Editing, and Middle English Literature

Published
Text 13 (2000): 9-25.

Description
Questions why Shakespeare--rather than Chaucer or others--is the "favorite son" of Anglo-American textual theory, arguing that the "unilinear transmission" of Shakespeare's plays makes it easier to pursue the illusion of authorial intent. Based on multiple witnesses, Middle English texts do not--or should not--fall victim to the cult of the author.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.