Editing and Manuscript form: Middle English Verse Written as Prose

Abstract

The early development of Middle English verse is intimately connected with the manuscript environments in which it was produced where, for the first time, new cultural factors permitted its copying as verse rather than, as in Old English, as continuous prose. But various factors — particularly geography, certain kinds of verse form, and gender — led to a resistance to copying verse in this way and, thus, to its transcription in prose or quasi-prosaic forms.

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