Discussion Questions for the CCE session at New Chaucer Society
2-4 pm, July 13, 2000

As we meet to update you on the progress of the Chaucer Commentary Editions, we would like you to think about the following questions and prepare to discuss them with us. If you're interested in the project, but won't be able to attend the session, feel free to e-mail the editors with your responses or to use the text boxes below.

1. In what form would it be easiest for you to use the Chaucer Commentary Editions--on the Web or on CD-ROM?

2. How important to you is it that each volume/CD-ROM/hypertext contain the actual body of an individual text as well as a comprehensive critical survey of all scholarship on that work? In other words, do you need a copy of the Monk's Tale as well as the critical commentary on the Monk's Tale?

3. If you want a text included, would you prefer to have a newly-edited text of Chaucer's works as part of the Chaucer Commentary Editions or would you prefer to use a standard, available text (e.g. Riverside)?

4. If a text is included, which numbering system (systems) would you prefer to be used--e.g. number as in Riverside, as in Manly-Rickert, as in Hengwrt, etc?

5. In what ways would you use volumes of the Chaucer Commentary Editions as a scholar?

6. In what ways would you use volumes of the Chaucer Commentary Editions as a teacher (both of undergraduates and graduates)?

7. In what ways can you envision your students (both undergraduate and graduate) using the Chaucer Commentary Editions?

8. For what features would you want to be able to search the text? (e.g. specific words, specific phrases, keywords, author names, editor names, place of publication, etc.) Please answer as comprehensively as possible as this will be a major component in our decision how to "mark up" the texts.

9. What kinds of combinations of 'windows' would you like to be able to bring up on screen--e.g. text next to commentary, commentary next to bibliography, etc?

Thanks for your help in providing this information. It will help us make the Chaucer Commentary Editions more valuable to you.

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