Borrowed Armor/Free Grace: The Quest for Authority in 'The Faerie Queene 1' and Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Author / Editor
- Berry, Craig A.
Borrowed Armor/Free Grace: The Quest for Authority in 'The Faerie Queene 1' and Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas'
- Published
- Studies in Philology 91 (1994): 136-66.
- Description
- Reads two sections of Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (the opening lines and Arthur's dream, 1.9) as examples of inscripted biographical details and the poetic anxiety of the work. Considers Spenser's adaptations of PF and, especially, Thop, reading Thop (and to an extent Mel) as a biographical and libidinal projection of Chaucer's own anxieties about social and poetic success.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Tale of Sir Thopas
- Tale of Melibee
- Parliament of Fowls
- Chaucer's Life