Huntington 140: Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Politics of Retelling

Author / Editor
Staley, Lynn.

Title
Huntington 140: Chaucer, Lydgate, and the Politics of Retelling

Published
Thomas Hahn and Alan Lupack, eds. Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 1997), pp. 293-320.

Description
Manuscript environment (in the case of Huntington 140, the copying of ClT alongside several pious poems by Lydgate and circulation with a paraphrase of Job, the "Libelle of Englyshe Polycye," and several edifying narratives), combined with the interests of specific readerships and larger political forces, may alter, complicate, or enrich the ways a particular poem is understood, both by its original audiences and by scholars.

Alternative Title
Retelling Tales: Essays in Honor of Russell Peck.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
Clerk and His Tale.