Chaucer's Presence and Absence, 1400-1550

Author / Editor
Simpson, James

Title
Chaucer's Presence and Absence, 1400-1550

Published
Piero Boitani and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 251-69.

Description
Changes in literary practice in the late fifteenth century helped modify reception of Chaucer's works. Remembered as a personal figure to be reckoned with by Hoccleve and Lydgate, Chaucer--like his works--was later objectified in the "philological" practices of early print culture, reaching a kind of humanist apotheosis in the 1532 edition of William Thynne.

Alternative Title
Cambridge Companion to Chaucer, 2d ed.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.