Editing Chaucer's Work

Soon, there will be some interesting observations on the history and problems of editing Chaucer's work in this spot. For the time being, enjoy the bibliography. JP

This volume is an invaluable collection of essays written on editing Chaucer over the centuries. It is referred to in the bibliography that follows as Ruggiers, ed., 1984:
Paul Ruggiers, ed. 1984. Editing Chaucer: The Great Tradition. Norman: Pilgrim Books, 1984.

• Baker, Donald C. 1986. William Thynne's Printing of the Squire's Tale: Manuscript and Printer's Copy. SB 39:125-132.
• Blake, Norman F. 1983. The Editorial Assumptions in the Manly-Rickert Edition of The Canterbury Tales. ES 64:385-400.
• _________ 1985a. The Textual Tradition of the Canterbury Tales. London, Baltimore: Edward Arnold.
• Blodgett, James E. 1984. William Thynne. In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 35-52.
• Boyd, Beverly 1984. William Caxton. In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 13-34.
• Brusendorff, Aage 1925. The Chaucer Tradition. London: Oxford Univ. Press.
• Doyle, A.I., and Parkes, M.B. 1978. The Production of Copies of the Canterbury Tales and the Confessio Amantis in the Early Fifteenth Century. In Medieval Scribes, Manu- scripts and Libraries: Essays Presented to N.R. Ker, ed. M.B. Parkes and Andrew G. Watson. London: Scolar Press, pp. 163-210.
• _________ 1979. "A Paleographical Introduction." In Rug- giers 1979.
• Dunn, Thomas F. 1940. The Manuscript Source of Caxton's Second Edition of the Canterbury Tales, Chicago, 1940 (Part of Univ. of Chicago Diss.).
• Edwards, A. S. G. 1984. "Walter W. Skeat." In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 171-89.
• Furnivall, F.J. 1868. A Temporary Preface to the Six-Text Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer Society, Second Series. London: Trbner.
• _________, ed. 1868-79a. The Cambridge MS (University Library, Gg.4.27) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer Society, First Series. London: Trbner.
• _________, ed. 1868-79b. The Corpus MS of Chaucer's Can- terbury Tales. Chaucer Society, First Series. London: Trbner.
• _________, ed. 1868-79c. The Lansdowne MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer Society, First Series. London: Trbner.
• _________, ed. 1868-79d. The Petworth MS of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer Society, First Series. London: Trbner.
• _________ 1885. The Harleian MS 7334 of Chaucer's Can- terbury Tales. Chaucer Society, First Series, 73. London: Trbner.
• _________ 1902. The Cambridge MS Dd.4.24 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Chaucer Society. London: Kegan Paul.
• Greg, W. W. 1924. The Early Printed Editions of the Canterbury Tales. PMLA 39:737-61.
• Hench, Atcheson L. 1950. Printer's Copy for Tyrwhitt's Chaucer. SB 3:265-66.
• Hudson, Anne 1984. John Stow. In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 53-70.
• Kane, George 1984. John M. Manly and Edith Rickert. In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 207-29.
• _________ and Edith Rickert, eds. 1940. The Text of the Canterbury Tales: Studied on the Basis of All Known Manu- scripts. 8 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Parks, M.B. and Richard Beadle 1980. Introduction to Poeti- cal Works: A Facsimile of Cambridge University Library Gg.4.27. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1979-80.
• _________ 1984b. Thomas Speght. In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 71-92.
• Ramsey, R. Vance 1982. The Hengwrt and Ellesmere MSS of the Canterbury Tales: Different Scribes. SB 35:133-54.
• _________ 1986. Paleography and Scribes of Shared Training. SAC 8:107-144.
• Ross, Thomas W. 1984. Thomas Wright. In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 145-56.
• Ruggiers, Paul G., ed. 1979. The Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer. A Facsimile and Transcription of the Hengwrt Manuscript, with Variants from the Ellesmere Manuscript. Introductions by Donald C. Baker and by A.I. Doyle and M.B. Parkes. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1979.
• Samuels, M.L. 1983. The Scribe of the Hg and El MSS of the Canterbury Tales. SAC 5:49-65.
• Smith, J.J. 1988. "The Trinity Gower D-Scribe and His Work on Two Early Canterbury Tales Manuscripts. In J. J. Smith, ed., The English of Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Essays by M. L. Samuels and J. J. Smith, pp. 51-69. Aber- deen: Aberdeen University Press.
• Thynne, Francis 1599. Animaduersions uppon the Annotacions and corrections . . . . EETS, os, 9. London: Trbner, 1865.
• Tyrwhitt, Thomas, ed. 1775. The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. 4 vols. Additional 5th vol. (Glossary), 1778. London: T. Payne. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1972.
• Urry, John, ed. 1721. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: Bernard Lintot.
• Windeatt, B. A. 1984. Thomas Tyrwhitt. In Ruggiers, ed. 1984, pp. 117-44.