L'Histoire de Neron par le 'Grant Translateur, Noble Geoffrey Chaucier'

Author / Editor
Taylor, Paul Beekman

Title
L'Histoire de Neron par le 'Grant Translateur, Noble Geoffrey Chaucier'

Published
Jean R. Scheidegger, ed. Le Moyen Age dans la modernite: Melanges offerts a Roger Dragonetti, Professeur honoraire a l'Universite de Geneve (Paris: Champion, 1996), pp. 427-42.

Description
Explores Chaucer's adaptation-translation of Jean de Meun's account of the fall of Nero. In MkT, Chaucer capitalizes on Boethian references to Nero and presents Nero as responsible for his fall in fortune.

Contributor
Scheidegger, Jean R.,ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.