Chaucer's Fifteenth-Century Audience and the Narrowing of the 'Chaucer Tradition'

Author / Editor
Strohm, Paul.

Title
Chaucer's Fifteenth-Century Audience and the Narrowing of the 'Chaucer Tradition'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982): 3-32.

Description
Few of Chaucer's primary audience (men like Sturry, Clifford, Clanover, Montagu, Vache, Scogan, Bukton, Gower, Strode, and Usk) survived him or were still active after his death. His fifteenth-century audience was more broadly dispersed but more narrow, conservative, and prudent in its taste.
Reprinted in Daniel J. Pinti, "Writings After Chaucer" (New York and London: Garland, 1998), pp. 101-26.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion..