1st Edition

Writing After Chaucer Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century

Edited By Daniel Pinti Copyright 1998
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

This volume makes available to teachers, students, and scholars a convenient selection of the most provocative and influential articles from the past 20 years on Chaucer's afterlife in the 15th century, one of the most dynamic topics in Chaucer studies today. Much recent work in the field of Chaucer studies has shown how our understanding of Chaucer's poetry is mediated by his 15th-century... Read more
Introduction, Daniel Pinti * Quesitons of Evidence: Manuscripts and the Early History of Chaucer's Works, Stephen Partridge * Language Policy for Lancastrian England, John H. Fisher * Scribes as Chaucer's Early Critics, Barry Windeatt * New Reader and Female Textuality in Two Early Commentaries on Chaucer, Susan Schibanoff * Chaucer's Fifteenth-Century Audience and the Narrowing of the Chaucer Tradition, Paul Strohm * Reputation and Circulation of Chaucer's Lyrics in the 15th Century, Julia Boffey * Father Chaucer, A.C. Spearing * The Tale of Beryn and The Siege of Thebes: Alternative Ideas of The Canterbury Tales, John Bowers * Critic and Poet: What Lydgate and Henryson Did to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, C. David Benson * Textual Authority and the Works of Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Heryson, Tim william Machan * Scottish Chaucer, Louise Fradenburg * At Chaucer's Tomb: Laureation and Paternity in Caxton's Criticism, Seth Lerer

Biography

Daniel Pinti