Early Modern Editors and the Value of Middle English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Burt, Cameron Bryce.
Early Modern Editors and the Value of Middle English Literature.
- Published
- Open access Ph.D. dissertation (University of Manitoba, 2019). Available at https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/xmlui/handle/1993/33853 (accessed November 14, 2021).
- Description
- Argues that "the increasing alterity of Middle English texts in the early modern period compelled editorial interventions designed to make the texts accessible as well as to identify, to emphasize, or to establish the texts/ relevance to contemporary audiences." Includes discussion of Thomas Speght's editing of Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations