Chaucer and Shakespeare

Author / Editor
Loomis, Dorothy Bethurum.

Title
Chaucer and Shakespeare

Published
A. C. Cawley, ed. Chaucer's Mind and Art (New York: Barnes & Noble; Edinburgh and London: Oliver & Boyd, 1969), pp. 166.90.

Description
Discusses similarities and differences between Chaucer and Shakespeare, concentrating on biography, theme, and literary techniques as well as borrowings. Comments on Shakespeare's adaptations of TC and KnT, and explores the writers' audiences, their comic methods, and their courtly ideals, finding close similarities in their treatments of "trouthe."

Alternative Title
Chaucer's Mind and Art.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Chaucer's Life
Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Language and Word Studies