Translating Thebes: Lydgate's Siege of Thebes and Stow's Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Edwards, Robert R.
Translating Thebes: Lydgate's Siege of Thebes and Stow's Chaucer
- Published
- ELH 70 (2003): 319-41.
- Description
- Discusses John Stow's 1561 edition of Chaucer's works, in which Stow includes Lydgate's "Siege of Thebes" to expand Chaucer's canon. The inclusion helped shape the idea of Chaucer in the Renaissance, with far-reaching consequences for subsequent editions and understandings of Chaucer's canon.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.