Speght's 'Works' and the Invention of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Machan, Tim William.
Speght's 'Works' and the Invention of Chaucer
- Published
- Text 8 (1996): 145-170.
- Description
- Examines how the form and ideology of Thomas Speght's Renaissance editions of Chaucer contribute to the monumentalization of the man and his works. Speght's critical apparatus, his expansion of Chaucer's corpus, and even the size and title pages of his editions contribute to Chaucer's preeminent mythical status.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.