Aspects of the Chaucerian Apocrypha : Animadversions on William Thynne's Edition of the 'Plowman's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Heffernan, Thomas J.
Aspects of the Chaucerian Apocrypha : Animadversions on William Thynne's Edition of the 'Plowman's Tale'
- Published
- Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1990), pp.155-67.
- Description
- Chaucer's canon evolved alongside a substantial body of virtually contemporary apocryphal texts attributed to him. But before the end of the last century, judgment concerning a text's authenticity was often indebted to extratextual biases: the complex political, social, moral, and religious beliefs that informed the editor's historical imagination.
- This insinuation of social climate into editorial judgment is demonstrable in Francis Thynne's account of his father's discussion with Henry VIII about his merits of "The Plowman's Tale" in his edition of Chaucer's works.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Plowman and the Tale.