Printing Power: Selling Lydgate, Gower, and Chaucer

Author / Editor
Higl, Andrew.

Title
Printing Power: Selling Lydgate, Gower, and Chaucer

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 23 (2006): 57-77.

Description
Explores why Chaucer was more marketable than either Gower or Lydgate in sixteenth-century England: Chaucer's variety, flexibility, and malleability made him more adaptable to various publics and therefore more attractive to early printers than other writers were.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.