The Ordering of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Donaldson, E. Talbot

Title
The Ordering of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Jerome Mandel and Bruce A. Rosenberg, eds. Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1970), pp. 193-204.

Description
Comments on the "impediments" to determining the order of CT with certainly, focusing on manuscript evidence, especially the problems evident in MLE and the "Rochester-Sittingbourne contradiction" in the Ellesmere order of the Tales. Suggests emendation to resolve the "contradiction."

Alternative Title
Medieval Literature and Folklore Studies: Essays in Honor of Francis Lee Utley.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Man of Law and His Tale