Chaucer in Augustan England

Author / Editor
Winton, Calhoun.

Title
Chaucer in Augustan England

Published
Calhoun Winton, John Gay and the London Theatre (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1993), pp. 26-40.

Description
Assesses how John Gay's play, "The Wife of Bath," sheds light on "what Gay and his contemportaries, most especially [Alexander] Pope, knew and thought about Chaucer," exploring Pope's influence on Gay's interest in Chaucer and the nature of Gay's adaptation of his Wife of Bath.

Alternative Title
John Gay and the London Theatre.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale