'Chaucer New Painted' (1623): Three hundred Proverbs in Performance Context

Author / Editor
Bowden, Betsy.

Title
'Chaucer New Painted' (1623): Three hundred Proverbs in Performance Context

Published
Oral Tradition 10 (1995): 304-58.

Description
William Painter's frame-narrative proverb collection reflects the general influence of CT and perhaps the more specific influence of Mel.
Bowden traces a brief history of collections of proverbs for performance and edits Painter's 1153-line poem from a unique octavo in the Huntington Library.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Canterbury Tales--General.
Tale of Melibee.