Chaucer and Lydgate, and the Uses of History

Author / Editor
McCray, Curtis Lee.

Title
Chaucer and Lydgate, and the Uses of History

Published
DAI 29.12 (1969): 4461A.

Description
Explores Chaucer's and Lydgate's assumptions about their audience's knowledge of history, and discusses how and to what extent it may indicate irony in KnT, MkT, TC, and several works by Lydgate.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale
Monk and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde