Chaucer's Self-Fashioning
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Chaucer's Self-Fashioning
- Published
- PoeticaT 55: 55-74, 2002.
- Description
- Chaucer's "doubleness" in critical tradition results from combinations of self-deprecation and extravagant claims to poetic authority in his works. In 1592, Robert Greene depicted Chaucer as short, whereas the frontispiece of Speght's 1598 edition depicts the poet as tall. These apparent contradictions have been sustained throughout critical tradition, resulting from Chaucer's own claims to be multitudinous and nothing at all. Cooper discusses authorial self-fashioning in BD, HF, TC, and CT (especially Th and Mel).
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.