A Series of Unfortunate Events: Stanza Disarrangements in Hoccleve's "Letter of Cupid."
- Author / Editor
- Rogers, Cynthia A.
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Stanza Disarrangements in Hoccleve's "Letter of Cupid."
- Published
- Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 195-98.
- Description
- Reviews how, in ten manuscript witnesses, the sixty-eight stanzas of "Letter" are misordered, in four distinct ways, three of which stem from collation errors. Though "unfortunate" for the poem, the errors "provide another few data points" regarding the connections among fifteenth-century Chaucerian miscellanies, and support contemporary hypotheses pertaining to the mechanics of professional book production.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies