Critical, Scientific, and Eclectic Editing of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Brewer, Charlotte.

Title
Critical, Scientific, and Eclectic Editing of Chaucer

Published
Richard Firth Green and Linne R. Mooney, eds. Interstices: Studies in Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), pp. 15-43.

Description
Examines several key terms in textual/editorial theory, exploring their application to various editions of Chaucer--Skeat's edition, Pollard's Globe edition, and editions by Zupitza, Koch, Manly and Rickert, and Robinson. The terms are used inconsistently, but Skeat's "best-text method tempered with a slight sprinkling of eclecticism" and common sense has proved most influential.

Alternative Title
Interstices: Studies in Late Middle English and Anglo-Latin Texts in Honour of A. G. Rigg.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.