Chaucer and the Problem of 'Recreative' Poetry in Renaissance England
- Author / Editor
- Hutchins, Christine E.
Chaucer and the Problem of 'Recreative' Poetry in Renaissance England
- Published
- Ben Jonson Journal 15 (2008): 248-70.
- Description
- Late sixteenth-century Elizabethan reception of Chaucer focused as much on his "recreational" talents as a vernacular poet and stylist as on his doctrinal or philosophical themes. Constructed as a "prodigal" poet as well as a laureate, Chaucer was at the center of a Renaissance debate concerning the validity of pleasure versus instruction in vernacular literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion