'Chaucer's Dreame' : A Bibliographer's Nightmare
- Author / Editor
- Forni, Kathleen.
'Chaucer's Dreame' : A Bibliographer's Nightmare
- Published
- Huntington Library Quarterly 64: 139-50, 2001.
- Description
- "The Isle of Ladies" --first published as "Chaucer's Dreame" with the "Fairest of the Fair" as "Additions" in Speght's 1598 edition--has been confused by both scribes and early editors with BD and Lydgate's "Temple of Glass." This confused transmission illustrates the difference between pre-print culture, in which texts were part of a shared culture, and print culture, in which "the marketing of 'authority' is an important part of the revolution of 'print capitalism.'"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.