Reforming Chaucer: Margins and Religion in an Apocryphal Canterbury Tale

Author / Editor
Patterson, Paul J.

Title
Reforming Chaucer: Margins and Religion in an Apocryphal Canterbury Tale

Published
Book History 8 (2005): 11-36.

Description
Patterson studies the marginalia printed with the 1606 edition of "The Plowman's Tale," arguing that it challenges both Papal authority and the Church of England, encouraging Puritanism. He also discusses the place of this edition in the tradition of Chaucer reception.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucerian Apocrypha
Plowman and the Tale