Redressing Nero's Array

Author / Editor
Taylor, Paul Beekman.

Title
Redressing Nero's Array

Published
Paul Beekman Taylor. Chaucer Translator (Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 1998), pp. 105-18.

Description
Assesses Chaucer's alterations of his sources (Jean de Meun and Boethius) in the Nero account of MkT. Through selection and emphasis, especially emphasis on clothing, Chaucer "forges a link between the emperor's name and his deeds," associating Nero with knitting (Latin "nere") and cutting (French "nairon"). In Chaucer, Nero's name is his fortune.

Alternative Title
Chaucer Translator.

Chaucer Subjects
Monk and His Tale.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.