Early Modern Editors and the Value of Middle English Literature.

Author / Editor
Burt, Cameron Bryce.

Title
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