Osbern Bokenham Reads the 'Prologue' to the Legend of Good Women: The Life of St. Margaret

Author / Editor
Spencer, Alice.

Title
Osbern Bokenham Reads the 'Prologue' to the Legend of Good Women: The Life of St. Margaret

Published
Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 160-203.

Description
Bokenham repeatedly refers to himself as an "auctor" as a way to extricate himself from the classicizing, conventional, and paternal shadow of Chaucer.

Alternative Title
Standing in the Shadow of the Master?

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Legend of Good Women