Kynaston's "Troilus," Textual Criticism, and the Renaissance Reading of Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Machan, Tim William.

Title
Kynaston's "Troilus," Textual Criticism, and the Renaissance Reading of Chaucer.

Published
Exemplaria 5 (1993): 161-83.

Description
Sir Francis Kynaston's 1635 translation of TC into Latin verse emblemizes the Renaissance need to valorize the present by simultaneously distancing the medieval past and articulating a tradition of continuity with it.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
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