Chaucer in Augustan England
- Author / Editor
- Winton, Calhoun.
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