Gower and Shakespeare in Pericles

Author / Editor
Hoeniger, F. David.

Title
Gower and Shakespeare in Pericles

Published
SQ 33 : 461-79, 1982.

Description
Assesses "incongruity in the sheer quality of style" in Pericles, especially the Gower passages, suggesting that Shakespeare was inspired by Thopas--Chaucer's experiment in incongruity produced from the "inferior art" of an earlier tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Tale of Sir Thopas