Public Chaucer: Translation and the Uses of Prose

Author / Editor
Wong, Jennifer.

Title
Public Chaucer: Translation and the Uses of Prose

Published
DAI 64: 896A, 2003.

Description
To understand Chaucer as a political court poet and a philosophical poet, we must read his prose as well as his poetry. Wong considers variations between Bo and its Boethian source, Mel as a model for how Chaucer treats his sources, Astr as a source of information, and the roles of the lost translation of Innocent's "De miseria condicionis humanae" in MLT and PardT.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Boece
Tale of Melibee
Treatise on the Astrolabe
Man of Law and His Tale
Pardoner and his Tale