English Auctores and Authorial Readers: Early Modernizations of Chaucer and Lydgate
- Author / Editor
- Ullyot, Michael.
English Auctores and Authorial Readers: Early Modernizations of Chaucer and Lydgate
- Published
- Ian Frederick Moulton, ed. Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2004), pp. 45-62.
- Description
- Assesses how two seventeenth-century modernizations reflect the reception of their Middle English originals. Jonathan Sidnam's modernization of the first three books of TC (ca. 1630) offers respectful tribute to Chaucer and seeks to preserve his legacy, while "The Life and Death of Hector" (1614), an anonymous modernization of Lydgate's "Troy Book," seeks to replace the original.
- Alternative Title
- Reading and Literacy in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.