'Sundrie Doubts': Vulnerable Understanding and Dubious Origins in Spenser's Continuation of the 'Squire's Tale'

Author / Editor
Berry, Craig A.

Title
'Sundrie Doubts': Vulnerable Understanding and Dubious Origins in Spenser's Continuation of the 'Squire's Tale'

Published
Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 106-27.

Description
Assesses Spenser's appeal to Chaucer and his continuation of SqT as an aspect of the Renaissance poet's doubt about his place in English poetry. Chaucer "revels in the multiplication of doubt," but Spenser sought to work out his doubts about his poetry and his career.

Alternative Title
Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Squire and His Tale.