Thomas Usk's 'Perdurable Letters': The 'Testament of Love' from Script to Print
- Author / Editor
- Middleton, Anne.
Thomas Usk's 'Perdurable Letters': The 'Testament of Love' from Script to Print
- Published
- Studies in Bibliography 51 (1998): 63-116.
- Description
- Working from the editions by Thynne and Skeat, Middleton seeks to correct the text of Usk's "Testament of Love" (first printed by Thynne as Chaucer's), particularly its misplaced portions in Book 3. Makes several suggestions about the nature of the lost manuscript, and includes recurrent attention to the acrostic of the initial letters of each chapter and Usk's "tribute to Chaucer."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Chaucerian Apocrypha
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