Chaucer Traditions
Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer

An important collection of essays which will be of interest to teachers and students of Chaucer.

Ruth Morse (Edited by), Barry Windeatt (Edited by)

9780521031493, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 November 2006

292 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.446 kg

Chaucer was perceived as the father of English poetry, and his works gave rise to a diversity of traditions of both creative response and critical commentary, to subsequent 'Chaucerian' authors and to a body of comment about his writings. This book is the first to describe Chaucer's literary influence across a wide range of writers and periods. It takes as its theme the variety of responses to Chaucer or 'Chaucer Traditions', and addresses topics of special interest arising from the effects Chaucer's work had on subsequent writers in the three centuries leading up to Dryden. Each essay focuses on a certain writer or literary tradition discussing these in the context of Chaucer's work and its influence. The result is an important collection of essays which will be of interest to all teachers and students of Chaucer, as well as to scholars of poetry in later periods.

List of contributors
Preface Note on the text
1. Chaucer traditions Barry Windeatt
2. Gower - Chaucer's heir Richard Axton
3. Chaucer and Lydgate Derek Pearsall
4. Hoccleve and Chaucer J. A. Burrow
5. Chaucer and fifteenth-century romance: Partonope of Blois Barry Windeatt
6. Some Chaucerian themes in Scottish writers Douglas Gray
7. The planetary gods in Chaucer and Henryson Jill Mann
8. Gavin Douglas: 'Off Eloquence the flowand balmy strand' Ruth Morse
9. Skelton's Garlande of Laurell and the Chaucerian tradition John Scattergood
10. Chaucer in metre and early Tudor songs John Stevens
11. Aspects of the Chaucerian apocrypha: animadversions on William Thynne's edition of the Plowman's Tale Thomas J. Heffernan
12. The shape-shiftings of the Wife of Bath, 1395–1670 Helen Cooper
13. The genius to improve an invention: transformations of the Knight's Tale Piero Boitani
14. From the Clerk's Tale to The Winter's Tale Anna Baldwin
15. The Virtuoso's Troilus Richard Beadle
16. Rewriting romance: Chaucer's and Dryden's Wife of Bath's Tale A. C. Spearing
17. Chaucer's religion and the Chaucer religion Charles Muscatine
18. A list of the published writings of Derek Brewer Toshiyuki Takamiya
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]