Caxton's Editing of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Author / Editor
Bordalejo, Barbara.

Title
Caxton's Editing of the 'Canterbury Tales'

Published
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 108.1 (2014): 41-60.

Description
Compares the first and second editions of Caxton's CT. Using digital tools to collate the first and second editions, finds that Caxton not only added and removed lines, but made over 3,000 changes based on a manuscript source that was closer to the textual tradition than his source for the first edition. Includes three appendices: A lists variants for SqT; B provides the number of "significant changes" made to each tale; C lists extant manuscripts.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Manuscripts and Textual Studies