Reading Chaucer in the Tower: The Person behind the Pen in an Early-Modern Copy of Chaucer's "Works."
- Author / Editor
- Ensley, Mimi.
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