'The Doctrine of These Olde Wyse': Commentary on the Commentary Tradition in Chaucer's Dream Visions

Author / Editor
Bloomfield, Josephine.

Title
'The Doctrine of These Olde Wyse': Commentary on the Commentary Tradition in Chaucer's Dream Visions

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 20: 125-33. , 2003.

Description
In LGWP, PF, and HF, Chaucer absorbs several conventions and concerns from the commentaries that he used as sources, thereby suggesting that his audience was familiar not only with traditional texts but also with the commentaries on them.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Legend of Good Women.
Parliament of Fowls.
House of Fame.