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Publishing an Electronic Textual Edition: The Case of The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM

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The article reports on one of the more sophisticated critical editions ever to be published in electronic format. The Wife of Bath is richly encoded, provides access to literally thousands of manuscript images, and enables users to assess the relationships between the numerous extant manuscript editions. The authors assess the methods used in the edition's development and the lessons learned through its production.

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  1. Digital Library Project, Innovation Centre, De Montfort University, 49 Oxford Street, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

    Peter Robinson & Kevin Taylor

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Robinson, P., Taylor, K. Publishing an Electronic Textual Edition: The Case of The Wife of Bath's Prologue on CD-ROM. Computers and the Humanities 32, 271–284 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1000943530396

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