Fragments IV and V of the Canterbury Tales Do Not Exist
- Author / Editor
- Meyer-Lee, Robert J.
Fragments IV and V of the Canterbury Tales Do Not Exist
- Published
- Chaucer Review 45 (2010): 1-31.
- Description
- The editorial break between MerE and SqH cannot be defended on the basis of manuscript evidence. The break has obscured an element of the "artistic design" of CT: a sequence of four tales whose tellers represent occupations held either by Chaucer or by his father. The thirty lines of MerE and SqH should be relabeled as MerSqL.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
- Chaucer's Life