What the Clerk's Tale Suggests about Manly and Rickert's Edition-and the Canterbury Tales Project

Author / Editor
Morse, Charlotte C.

Title
What the Clerk's Tale Suggests about Manly and Rickert's Edition-and the Canterbury Tales Project

Published
A. J. Minnis, ed. Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, 2001), pp.41-56.

Description
Morse comments on how the Canterbury Tales Project may reinvigorate textual questions thought to have been answered by the Manly-Rickert edition and latent in the Variorum project. Explores such issues as tale order, tale revision, and manuscript authority, especially as they relate to ClT.

Alternative Title
Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions. Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Clerk and His Tale.