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Old 06-22-2017, 05:05 PM   #46
ekbell
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I do have a version of Chaucer's tales that takes a middle route between Middle English spelling and rewriting the tales (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/we...phy/murphy.htm with spelling mostly modernized but the language otherwise unchanged and a reasonable level of glossing and footnoting. I find this a good medium between the orginal spelling which requires more work then I am currently willing to put into reading and modern rewritings. And while I enjoyed Shakespears Last Folio edited by Ron Kolfer and available on this forum, I must admit that I find the versions with modernized spelling and typography easier to read although the difference in ease of reading is much less marked then with Chaucer.

So I do appreciate the option of books with modernized spelling and typography although I'm not sure about the need for punctuation changes (it's not exactly hard to understand to-day vs today).
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