Richard Pynson and the Stigma of the Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Author / Editor
- Forni, Kathleen.
Richard Pynson and the Stigma of the Chaucerian Apocrypha
- Published
- Chaucer Review 34: 428-36, 2000.
- Description
- As the first printer to collect Chaucer's works, Pynson has been accused of "inflating" and "contaminating" Chaucer's canon. But the concept of an author's "complete works" did not solidify until the nineteenth century. Pynson used Chaucer's name to sell the collection, and his efforts indicate public interest in a book of "collected works" by one author.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
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