Ben Jonson's Chaucer

Author / Editor
Evans, Robert C.

Title
Ben Jonson's Chaucer

Published
English Literary Renaissance 19 (1989): 324-45.

Description
Discuses the complex response to Chaucer in Jonson's annotations on his copy of Thomas Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer, especially the affinity of ethical and poetic thought, concentrating on two poems, "The Remedie of Love" and "Of the Cuckow and the Nightingale," no longer attributed to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Chaucerian Apocrypha.