'Quha wait gif all that Chauceir wrait was trewe'--Auctor and Auctoritas in 15th Century English Literature
- Author / Editor
- Fichte, Joerg O.
'Quha wait gif all that Chauceir wrait was trewe'--Auctor and Auctoritas in 15th Century English Literature
- Published
- Walter Haug and Burghart Wachinger, eds. Traditionswandel und Traditionsverhalten (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1991), pp. 61-76.
- Description
- Chaucer's playful attitude toward authority contrasts Gower's serious one; analogously, Henryson's questioning of Chaucer's authority (Testament of Cresseid) contrasts Lydgate's endorsement of it (Seige of Thebes).
- Alternative Title
- Traditionswandel und Traditionsverhalten.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.