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[Textual] Criticism and Deconstruction by D. C. Greetham
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Text as Matter, Concept, and Action by Peter L. Shillingsburg
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Textual Criticism and Literary Sociology by G. Thomas Tanselle
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Printing at Froben's: An Eye-Witness Account by Johan Gerritsen
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Copy-Text and Its Variants in Some Recent Chaucer Editions by Joseph A. Dane
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Greg's Notion of Copy-Text
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Base Text and Best Text
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Recent Chaucer Editions I (Single-Text Editions)
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Chaucer Editions II (Eclectic Editions, Riverside Edition, Windeatt's Troilus)
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Kane's Piers Plowman
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Conclusion
  
Notes
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Bibliographical Methods for Identifying Unknown Printers in Elizabethan/Jacobean Books by Adrian Weiss
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Reconstruction and Adaptation in Q Henry V by Kathleen Irace
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Jonson's Authorization of Type in Sejanus and Other Early Quartos by John Jowett
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'Travelling West-Ward': The Lost Letter from Johathan Swift to Charles Ford by Clive Probyn
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Attributions of Authorship in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1731-77: A Supplement to Kuist by Emily Lorraine de Montluzin
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A Collaboration in Learning: The Gentleman's Magazine and Its Ingenious Contributors by James M. Kuist
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John Nichols's Notes in the Scholarly Commentary of Others by Arthur Sherbo
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Title-Pages Produced by the Walter Scott Publishing Co LTD by John R. Turner
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A Mixed Bag from the Bookman of New York by Arthur Sherbo
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A Bibliographical Analysis of the Manuscript of D. H. Lawrence's The White Peacock by A. R. Atkins
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Document or Process as the Site of Authority: Establishing Chronology of Revision in Competing Typescripts of Lawrence's The Boy in the Bush by Paul Eggert
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Simms's First Published Fiction by James E. Kibler

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The purpose of the present paper is to examine the use of both the term and concept "copy-text" with reference to some recent Chaucer editions. The paper will be in two parts: the first deals with the concept of copy-text in general, based on a conservative reading of Greg's definition; the second deals with the use of this and related terminology primarily in the recent Variorum Chaucer volumes, the Riverside Chaucer, and Blake's edition of the Canterbury Tales.

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