John Capgrave and the Chaucer Tradition

Author / Editor
Winstead, Karen A.

Title
John Capgrave and the Chaucer Tradition

Published
Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 389-400.

Description
Though Capgrave's "Life of St. Katherine" does not mention Chaucer or his characters and does not quote from Chaucer's texts, it bears a marked similarity to the technique of TC. Capgrave seems interested in issues raised by Chaucer but not, like Hoccleve and Lydgate, in "becoming" a Chaucerian.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Troilus and Criseyde.