Popular Chaucer and the Academy

Author / Editor
Ellis, Steve.

Title
Popular Chaucer and the Academy

Published
Studies In Medievalism 09 (1997): 26-43.

Description
Shows that the steady growth in understanding of the historical context of Chaucer's poetry has coexisted with a tendency, on the part of scholars as well as popularizers, to view Chaucer as the jovial poet of "merrie England."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.