Representing Caxton's Chaucer: Wynken de Worde and the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Tokunaga, Satoko.

Title
Representing Caxton's Chaucer: Wynken de Worde and the Canterbury Tales

Published
PoeticaT 55 : 105-21, 2001.

Description
Studies Wynken de Worde's use of copy texts for his edition of CT. Although de Worde used Caxton's second edition, he also turned to an undetermined manuscript or manuscripts to improve the ordinatio of the work. The changes do not, however, indicate concern with textual accuracy.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.