'Englyssh Gaufride' and British Chaucer? Chaucerian Allusions to the Condition of Wales in the House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- Meecham-Jones, Simon.
'Englyssh Gaufride' and British Chaucer? Chaucerian Allusions to the Condition of Wales in the House of Fame
- Published
- Chaucer Review 44 (2009): 1-24.
- Description
- Chaucer's sensitivity to the "cultural survival" of Wales is suggested in three moments in HF: the insinuation that Wales is near the river of forgetfulness through a visual pun on "Cymerie" (73); the citation of an unknown and hence implicitly forgotten Welsh bard, "Bret Glascurion" (1208); and the reference to the Welsh Geoffrey of Monmouth as "Englyssh" (1470).
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame