The Chaucerian Apocrypha: Did Usk's 'Testament of Love' and 'The Plowman's Tale' Ruin Chaucer's Early Reputation?

Author / Editor
Forni, Kathleen.

Title
The Chaucerian Apocrypha: Did Usk's 'Testament of Love' and 'The Plowman's Tale' Ruin Chaucer's Early Reputation?

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 98 (1997): 261-72.

Description
The attribution of "Testament of Love" and "The Plowman's Tale" to Chaucer seems to have had no unfavourable effect, though the acceptance of his authorship of "The Plowman's Tale" may have fueled the belief that Ret was a monkish forgery.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Chaucer's Retraction
Plowman and the Tale