The Language of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Editions of the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Horobin, Simon C. P.
The Language of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Editions of the Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie 119: 249-58, 2001.
- Description
- Analyzes spelling in the four printed editions of CT issued before 1500. Caxton (1476 and 1482) and Wynken de Worde (1498) responded individually to the perceived authority of the work, while Richard Pynson (1492) attempted to replace the nonstandard features of Caxton's editions with Chancery Standard forms.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Canterbury Tales--General.