Modern punctuation of Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale: Line 964

Abstract

With respect to editions of Chaucer in particular, this lack of concern for punctuation has indeed been essentially, if not entirely, the case. F. N. Robinson, the editor of what was for many years the standard scholarly edition of Chaucer (Robinson 1933, 1957), groups punctuation with “minor matters of printing,” saying only that “modern usage has been followed” (p. xxxix). Larry D. Benson, the general editor of the Riverside Chaucer (Benson 1987; Chaucer 1987), which updates Robinson, also invokes “modern usage” as the principle guiding punctuation, while somewhat inconsistently acknowledging that “Middle https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2023.2252969