Chaucer's Döpppelganger : Thomas Usk and the Reformation of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Prendergast, Thomas A.
Chaucer's Döpppelganger : Thomas Usk and the Reformation of Chaucer
- Published
- Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline, eds. Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1999), pp. 258-69
- Description
- Suggests that Usk's autobiographical Testament of Love has affected critical understanding of Chaucer's biography, influencing assumptions about Chaucer's level of political involvement and the relations between his politics and his poetics. Prendergast assesses two early biographies of Chaucer-Thomas Speght's and that of British Library Additional MS 5141-and later studies by Derek Pearsall, Donald Howard, Paul Strohm, and S. Sanderlin.
- Alternative Title
- Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Life.