Reception of Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale': Osbern Bokenham's 'Lif of S. Cycyle'
- Author / Editor
- Jankowski, Eileen S.
Reception of Chaucer's 'Second Nun's Tale': Osbern Bokenham's 'Lif of S. Cycyle'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 30 (1996): 306-18.
- Description
- Lexical similarities and broad organizational strategies in Bokenham's legend suggest that his sources were SNT, the "Legenda," and the "Passio." Bokenham reveals an early fifteenth-century appreciation of Chaucer's skill as author and translator.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Second Nun and her Tale.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.