Ruddymane and Canace, Lost and Found: Spenser's Reception of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' 3 and Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Sanders, Arnold A.
Ruddymane and Canace, Lost and Found: Spenser's Reception of Gower's 'Confessio Amantis' 3 and Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
- Published
- David G. Allen and Robert A. White, eds. The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Newark: University of Delaware Press; London and Toronto: Associated University Presses, 1992), pp. 196-215.
- Description
- Examines Gower's tale of Canace, the Man of Law's reference to the account, and the narrative treatment of the character Canace in SqT, arguing that Spenser fused them in his Canace. In his second (1596) edition of "The Faerie Queene" Spenser diminishes his debt to Gower and reflects the Squire's desire to evade social and poetic threats from the bourgeois pilgrims.
- Alternative Title
- The Work of Dissimilitude: Essays from the Sixth Citadel Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Squire and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.