Literary Authority as Cultural Criticism in Aemilia Lanyer's The Author's Dreame
- Author / Editor
- Shea, Colleen.
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.