Lydgate's Literary History : Chaucer, Gower, and Canacee
- Author / Editor
- Nolan, Maura.
Lydgate's Literary History : Chaucer, Gower, and Canacee
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005): 59-92
- Description
- Reads Lydgate's tale of Canacee (Fall of Princes, Book 1) as a subtle response to its source (Gower's "Confessio Amantis"), complicated by several allusions to Chaucerian narratives (ClT, MLT, PrT). Lydgate's confrontations with various kinds of "Ovidianism" are epitomized in the silence of Canacee's child and in Canacee's own complaint, which via further allusions to Chaucer (TC, HF) poses competing views of fortune and of the value of poetry in representing fortune and history.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.