Editorial Assumptions and Problems in The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
Editorial Assumptions and Problems in The Canterbury Tales

Published
Poetica 20 (1984): 1-19

Description
Considers textual issues that pertain to the "Host stanza" at the end of ClT (4.1212a-g) and several passages in MkT and NPT: the "Adam stanza" (7.2007-14), the "Modern Instances" (7.2375-2462), and the short versus long versions of NPP. Discusses manuscript evidence and the likely sequence of composition.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Monk and His Tale.
Nun's Priest and His Tale