Beaupré Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century
- Author / Editor
- Horobin, Simon.
Beaupré Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century
- Published
- Carol M. Meale and Derek Pearsall, eds. Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S. G. Edwards (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014), pp. 214-23.
- Description
- Beaupré Bell (1704-45), member of a noble Norfolk family, was known as a careful, if not exhaustive, annotator of Chaucer manuscripts (Cambridge,Trinity College, MSS R.3.19 and R.3.15). Now it is clear that two printed editions of Chaucer in the Cambridge Library, those of Thomas Speght (1598) and John Urry (1721), received his more extensive attention. Bell's textual comparisons and critical comments show intelligence and at least a partially formulated editorial methodology. His later correspondence recalls an unrealized ambition to do a full edition of Chaucer, apparently responding to the widely perceived inadequacies of Urry.
- Alternative Title
- Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A. S. G. Edwards
- Chaucer Subjects
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