Shakespeare's Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins
- Author / Editor
- Thompson, Ann.
Shakespeare's Chaucer: A Study in Literary Origins
- Published
- New York: Barnes & Noble, 1978.
- Physical Description
- 239 pp.
- Description
- Elizabethan and Jacobean writers found Chaucer a major poet. The poems most frequently used--TC, KnT, and ClT--show that they regarded Chaucer as a romantic not a comic writer. He is used for a brief reference or quotation, a subsidiary source, or a full-scale plot. Shakespeare's use is the most extensive and interesting; e.g., "A Midsummer Night's Dream" uses four works in different ways; KnT, LGW, MerT, PF.
- In "Troilus and Cressida" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen," Shakespeare picks out details from several different places in Chaucer's poems to concentrate an effect in a single scene rather than following his source through.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.