The Voice of the Author in 'The Phoenix and Turtle': Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser
- Author / Editor
- Cheney, Patrick.
The Voice of the Author in 'The Phoenix and Turtle': Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser
- Published
- Curtis Perry and John Watkins, eds. Shakespeare and the Middle Ages (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 103-25.
- Description
- Cheney examines how Shakespeare's "The Phoenix and Turtle" echoes PF, particularly as "a poem about the politics of authorship." As a "great poet of self-crowning," Spenser responds to Chaucer's self-effacing pursuit of fame. Shakespeare sets these two poses in opposition in his poem and comments on how poetry engages political crisis.
- Contributor
- Perry, Curtis, ed.
- Watkins, John, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Shakespeare and the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Parliament of Fowls