Geoffrey Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Dillon, Janette.
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Published
- Basingstoke and London:
- New York: Macmillan;
- St. Martin's Press, 1993.
- Physical Description
- x, 212 pp.
- Series
- Writers in Their Time.
- Description
- Historicist introduction to Chaucer's life, works, literary context, and influence.
- Individual chapters discuss biography, literacy and literary production, contemporary social structures, England's relations with the Continent, philosophers and philosophical issues, obsession with death and worldly transcience, and Shakespeare's relation (especially in "A Midsummer Night's Dream") to Chaucer as an index to Chaucer's reception.
- The chapters describe fourteenth-century outlooks and issues and explore their representation in Chaucer's works, especially TC and CT. Dillon pays recurrent attention to the contingent relationship between literature and history and acknowledges the time-bound nature of our understanding of Chaucer and his age.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Chaucer's Life.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.