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<p>While the subject matter of this article is Chaucer's <em>Canterbury Tales,</em> the content focuses on issues related to critical editions in general. Among these are the relationship between multiple editions of a text and, based on these, conclusions that can drawn about the original text. Thus, the article presents a discussion of critical editions, structured around the following topics: Conclusions about Relations among All the Texts in the Tradition; Conclusions about the Earliest State of the Text; and Conclusions about the Value of Individual Manuscripts.</p>
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