The Links in the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Blake, Norman.

Title
The Links in the Canterbury Tales

Published
Susan Powell and Jeremy J. Smith, eds. New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R. A. Waldron (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000), pp. 107-18.

Description
Like individual tales, the links of The Canterbury Tales exist in several authorial versions, indicating that Chaucer prepared several versions of the whole during his lifetime. Thus, the notion of a single manuscript stemma is impossible or inappropriate. Comments on Merchant Endlink-Squire Headlink, Squire-Franklin Link, Man of Law Endlink, and Nun's Priest's Endlink.

Alternative Title
New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: A Festschrift for R. A. Waldron.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Man of Law and His Tale.
Nun's Priest and His Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.
Merchant and His Tale.
Squire and His Tale.