Father Chaucer and the Siege of Thebes : Literary Paternity, Aggressive Deference, and the Prologue to Lydgate's Oedipal Canterbury Tale
- Author / Editor
- Kline, Daniel T.
Father Chaucer and the Siege of Thebes : Literary Paternity, Aggressive Deference, and the Prologue to Lydgate's Oedipal Canterbury Tale
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 217-35, 1999.
- Description
- Details the strategy of "obeisant self-authorization " by which Lydgate places himself in Chaucer's debt, simultaneously embracing the older poet's influence and "overthrowing" his "paternal presence." He does this by controlling the Host-figure and reconfiguring the Canterbury pilgrims.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.