Thomas Speght's Renaissance Chaucer and the 'Solaas of Sentence' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Author / Editor
- Kinney, Clare Regan.
Thomas Speght's Renaissance Chaucer and the 'Solaas of Sentence' in 'Troilus and Criseyde'
- Published
- Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 66-84.
- Description
- Examines the identification of proverbs and sententiae in Speght's 1602 edition of Chaucer's works, focusing on TC. The introduction of maniples (pointing hands) enabled Speght to, in effect, pre-select nuggets of Chaucerian wisdom for a Renaissance commonplace book, despite the irony of indicating proverbs in a work preoccupied with the instability of human utterance.
- Alternative Title
- Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Troilus and Criseyde.