Chaucer Traditions
- Author / Editor
- Windeatt, Barry.
Chaucer Traditions
- Published
- Ruth Morse and Barry Windeatt, eds. Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 1-20.
- Description
- The first English author to think of his writings as a whole and as having a posterity, Chaucer in the two "Prologues" to LGW, the introduction to MLT, and Ret lists his writings as an assembled corpus of individual works. "At the close of 'Troilus and Criseyde' he envisages a future for his writing in relation to the past, when he bids his poem follow in the footsteps of the ancient poets, but also worries about textual transmission and future interpretation."
- The earliest responses to Chaucer's works date from the 1380s and 1390s (Gower, Deschamps, etc.). Three centuries of imitation and re-creation of Chaucer by subsequent authors are brought to a close by the verse translations or modernizations of Chaucer by Dryden in his "Fables Ancient and Modern" (1700).
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer Traditions: Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Chaucer's Retraction.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Man of Law and His Tale.