Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580

Author / Editor
Gertz, SunHee Kim.

Title
Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580

Published
New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Physical Description
xi, 248 pp.

Description
Gertz assesses 1337-1580 as the period of transition between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era. Dynastic ambition, science, exploration, and disasters provide contexts and stimuli for the literature. In their rhetorical dexterity and highly crafted images, Chaucer and Shakespeare are exceptional writers, yet Chaucer was a diplomat and bureaucrat and Shakespeare was probably an actor as well as an entrepreneur. Much of the literature of the period reflects textured engagement of contemporary concerns, evident through close reading of rhetorical and semiotic systems. Chapter Two, "Training, Religion and Treatises," discusses WBPT, and Chapter Five, "Narrative and Lyric Poetry," discusses TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Troilus and Criseyde.