The Text of the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Blake, N. F.

Title
The Text of the Canterbury Tales

Published
PoeticaT 13 (1982): 27-49

Description
Comparison of manuscripts of CT enables inferential conclusions about their exemplar (which does not survive), but the complexity of these conclusions justifies reliance on the Hengwrt manuscript. Blake considers the likelihood that the manuscripts of most of Chaucer's works, especially those of CT and TC, may be the products of an "editorial committee."

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Canterbury Tales--General.