A New Midrashic Reading of Geoffrey Chaucer : His Life and Works
- Author / Editor
- Simms, Norman Toby.
A New Midrashic Reading of Geoffrey Chaucer : His Life and Works
- Published
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Mellen, 2004.
- Physical Description
- x, 486 pp.
- Series
- Studies in British Literature, no. 89
- Description
- Reads details of Chaucer's life and works as evidence that he can be viewed as a "fuzzy Jew," who acquired some kabbalistic knowledge through his travels and contact with Jews in London and who disguised this knowledge in ways that anticipate the writings of fifteenth-century Spanish Marranos.
- Discusses cryptic aspects of Chaucer's life and the ironies of his works, assessing CT, especially PrT and WBPT. Argues that BD was "inspired by kabbalistic letter combinations."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Book of the Duchess.
- Chaucer's Life.