Dating Chaucer

Author / Editor
Lynch, Kathryn L.

Title
Dating Chaucer

Published
ChauR 42 (2007): 1-22.

Description
Objective evaluation reveals the "elusive" and contradictory "evidence" on which chronologies of Chaucer's works--and, most notably, constructions of his artistic maturation--are based. These constructions are essentially interpretive activities; Chaucer critics too often "entertain unproven theories about date as if they were fact."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Chaucer's Life.