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The injuries of time - PDF Document (242 K) |
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| Access Rights |
Open Access |
| Citation |
Trigg, S. (2008). The injuries of time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght, and Wade’s boat. The La Trobe Journal, (81), 106-117. |
| Handle |
10187/2464 |
| Title |
The injuries of time: Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Speght, and Wade’s boat |
| Creator |
Trigg, Stephanie |
| Date |
2008 |
| Subject / Keywords |
English literary studies, Chaucer, Speght |
| Abstract |
The State Library at Melbourne holds a wonderful collection of early Chaucer editions: two leaves from William Caxton’s editions of The Canterbury Tales (from 1478 and 1483), and a more substantial group of relatively rare sixteenth- and seventeenth-century editions. Starting with this impressive group, it is possible to use the Melbourne collection to track the major stages in the long history of editing and printing Chaucer, through John Urry’s lavish but inaccurate edition of 1721, the more scholarly text of Thomas Tyrwhitt in five volumes (1775-78), the numerous texts of various works produced by Frederick J. Furnivall for the Chaucer Society in the late nineteenth century, and the beautiful Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896, printed by William Morris and incorporating wood-cuts designed by Edward Burne-Jones, through to the scholarly and student editions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These editions often differ considerably from each other. Not only have critical opinions varied substantially over the centuries as to the best manuscripts and the best methods of presenting Chaucer’s work, but the audience and the use anticipated for each edition (for different generations of general readers, scholars or students) also affects the nature of the prefatory material and the commentaries, notes and glossaries that surround the text. |
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Journal Article |
| Source Title |
The La Trobe Journal |
| Issue |
81 |
| Pages |
106-117 |
| Notes |
Reproduced with permission of The La Trobe Journal |
| Publication Status |
Published |
| Peer Reviewed |
Peer Reviewed |
| Faculty/Department |
Faculty of Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Institution |
University of Melbourne |
| Alternative Location |
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/about/information/publications/latj/recent_editions/latj_no81.html |
| Collection |
Research Collections (UMER) |
| Rights |
Terms and Conditions: Copyright in works deposited in the University of Melbourne Eprints Repository (UMER) is retained by the copyright owner. The work may not be altered without permission from the copyright owner. Readers may only, download, print, and save electronic copies of whole works for their own personal non-commercial use. Any use that exceeds these limits requires permission from the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from these works. |
| PID |
74707 |
| Identifier |
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