'Lyke Chaucers Boye': Poetry and Penitence in Gascoigne's 'Grief of Joye'

Author / Editor
Laam, Kevin.

Title
'Lyke Chaucers Boye': Poetry and Penitence in Gascoigne's 'Grief of Joye'

Published
Early Modern Literary Studies 14.1 (2008): n. p. [Electronic publication]

Description
Influenced by courtly Chaucerian conventions earlier in his career, George Gascoigne emulated Chaucerian penitential seriousness in "The Grief of Joye." Laam comments on Gascoigne's and George Puttenham's uses of Chaucer, and briefly explores the reception of Chaucer's Adam.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde
Chaucer's Retraction
Adam Scriveyn