'Quha wait gif all that Chauceir wrait was trewe'--Auctor and Auctoritas in 15th Century English Literature

Author / Editor
Fichte, Joerg O.

Title
'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.