Chaucer and the English Reformation
- Author / Editor
- Swart, Felix.
Chaucer and the English Reformation
- Published
- Neophilologus 62 (1978): 616-19.
- Description
- "The Plowman's Tale," first appearing in Chaucer's "Works" in 1542, and the "Pilgrim's Tale," printed not earlier than 1536, both clearly based on earlier material, could be clever forgeries or retouched, but substantially genuine, medieval poems. Their intended effect was to make Chaucer posthumously support the English Reformation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Plowman and the Tale