Manuscripts and Audience
- Author / Editor
- Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.
Manuscripts and Audience
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 34-50.
- Description
- The essay describes the "complex exercises in historical reconstruction" essential to bridge the distance between modern readers and Chaucer and his contemporary audience. Discusses Chaucer's literary production, his revisions, and scribal adaptations as evident in surviving manuscripts and references within the works themselves, contrasting modern presentations of Chaucer's works with the medieval perception of CT as unfinished and open-ended.
- Contributor
- Edwards, A. S. G.
- Alternative Title
- A Concise Companion to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.