'Troy Book': How Lydgate Translates Chaucer into Latin
- Author / Editor
- Baswell, Christopher C.
'Troy Book': How Lydgate Translates Chaucer into Latin
- Published
- Jeanette Beer, ed. Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute, 1997), pp. 215-37.
- Description
- By inserting elements of Chaucerian narrative and language and making direct references to Chaucer and TC, Lydgate replaces the Latin model of literary accomplishment with a vernacular model, thus translating Chaucer's English writing into the high social and political position originally occupied by Latin works such as Guido delle Colonne's "Historia destructionis Troiae," Lydgate's chief source.
- Alternative Title
- Translation Theory and Practice in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.