Sir Thomas More's Use of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Ryan, Francis X., SJ.

Title
Sir Thomas More's Use of Chaucer

Published
SEL: Studies in English Literature 35 (1995): 1-17.

Description
Explores More's likely knowledge of Chaucer by examining the former's references and allusions to Chaucer, his quotations of the earlier poet, and their uses of similar proverbs.
Includes a developed examination of relations between More's "History of Richard III" and ClT.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.