Reading Chaucer in the Tower: The Person behind the Pen in an Early-Modern Copy of Chaucer's "Works."

Author / Editor
Ensley, Mimi.

Title
Reading Chaucer in the Tower: The Person behind the Pen in an Early-Modern Copy of Chaucer's "Works."

Published
Journal of the Early Book Society 18 (2015): 136–57.

Description
Establishes that John Harington owned a copy of William Thynne's 1542 edition of Chaucer's complete works and may have annotated it when he was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Comments on Harington's annotations and speculates on communal reading practices and Chaucer's connections to Boethius.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations