Who Is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb?--Prolegomena
- Author / Editor
- Dane, Joseph A.
Who Is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb?--Prolegomena
- Published
- Huntington Library Quarterly 57 (1994): 99-123.
- Description
- Discusses variants in editorial and antiquarian reports of the Latin inscription engraved on Chaucer's tomb and the verses "about the ledge" of the tomb. Suggests that the "snowy tablet" supposedly fixed by Surigone to a pillar near the tomb on which the Latin epitaph appeared is Leland's metaphor for the page of his own book and that the otherwise unknown "Hickeman" to whom Commaunder attributes the inscription results from a misreading of a blackletter copy of Foxe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.