THE TEXT OF CAXTON'S SECOND EDITION OF THE CANTERBURY TALES

Authors

  • Bordalejo Bárbara
Keywords: Textual criticism, scliolarly editing, new stemmatics, stemmatology, incunabula, Caxton, Chaucer, the Canterbury Tules, Canterbury Tales Project

Abstract

This article describes recent research on the textual relationship between the first and second editions of the Canterbury Tales printed in England by William Caxton and it also explores the textual affiliations of the manuscript source for the corrections in the second edition. Using both computerised and manual methods the variant readings between the first and second editions of the Tales are isolated. Examples of the textual affiliations of the manuscript source of Caxton's second edition are analysed. This article concludes that the manuscript source for the corrections introduced in Caxton's second edition of the Tales was of the same quality as tlie best extant manuscripts and that its readings can help our understanding of the textual tradition and can clarify the text for editors of the Tales.

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Author Biography

Bordalejo Bárbara

Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing University of Birmingham
Published
19-01-2009
How to Cite
Bárbara, B. (2009). THE TEXT OF CAXTON’S SECOND EDITION OF THE CANTERBURY TALES. International Journal of English Studies, 5(2), 161–173. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/47771
Issue
Vol. 5 No. 2 (2005): Editing middle english in the 21st century: old texts, new approaches
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