The Wiles of a Woodcut : Wynkyn de Worde and the Early Tudor Reader

Author / Editor
Lerer, Seth.

Title
The Wiles of a Woodcut : Wynkyn de Worde and the Early Tudor Reader

Published
Huntington Library Quarterly 59.4: 381-96, 1998.

Description
Explores de Worde's multiple uses of the same woodcut (a depiction of an exchange of rings) in various books he produced. Found twice in de Worde's TC, the woodcut may reflect his reception of TC via the summary of it in John Skelton's "Phyllyp Sparowe." Also discusses intertextualities resulting from use of the woodcut in Stephen Hawes's "Pastime of Pleasure" and "Conforte of Louers," "The Squyre of Lowe Degre" (de Worde's "Unto Youre Dore"), and "The IIII Leues of a Truelove."

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
Troilus and Criseyde.