Not Just 'Chaucer's England' Anymore: Reassessing John Clanvowe's 'Boke of Cupide'
- Author / Editor
- Symons, Dana.
Not Just 'Chaucer's England' Anymore: Reassessing John Clanvowe's 'Boke of Cupide'
- Published
- Kathleen A. Bishop, ed. Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010), pp. 123-59.
- Description
- Also named "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale," "Boke of Cupide" was once considered one of Chaucer's great poems until it fell into obscurity when it was removed from the canon. The essay considers stylistic similarities to Chaucer's dream visions, the implications of the work's critical history, and its parallels with the themes of courtly language, use of the vernacular, and truth telling in SqT.
- Alternative Title
- Standing in the Shadow of the Master?
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.