Mapping Chaucer: John Speed and the Later Portraits

Author / Editor
Driver, Martha W.

Title
Mapping Chaucer: John Speed and the Later Portraits

Published
Chaucer Review 36 (2002): 228-49.

Description
Driver examines John Speed's portrait of Chaucer (first printed version, Speght 1598) as a representation of "Elizabethan nationalism" and an emblem of Chaucer's reception. She also discusses Speed's career as a cartographer and historian and comments on the impact of his portrait of Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations