Literary Authority as Cultural Criticism in Aemilia Lanyer's The Author's Dreame

Author / Editor
Shea, Colleen.

Title
Literary Authority as Cultural Criticism in Aemilia Lanyer's The Author's Dreame

Published
ELR 32 : 386-407, 2002.

Description
In her poem "The Author's Dreame," Lanyer uses the medieval dream vision, allusions to Chaucer (HF) and other poets, and Renaissance and biblical tropes to criticize as well as praise her patrons; however, her authority is threatened by the use of these very sources.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.