'I Endowed Thy Purposes' : Shakespeare, Editing, and Middle English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Machan, Tim William.
'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.