London and Southwark Poetic Companies: 'Si tost c'amis' and the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
London and Southwark Poetic Companies: 'Si tost c'amis' and the Canterbury Tales

Published
Ardis Butterfield, ed. Chaucer and the City (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 109-28.

Description
Cooper discusses the poetic confraternities called "puys," devoted to competitive writing of poetry. An edition and translation of Renaud de Hoiland's "Si tost c'amis" serves as an example of the kind of civil performance being rejected by the storytellers of CT.

Alternative Title
Chaucer and the City.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales - General.