"I wolde . . . han hadde a fame': Dante, Fame, and Infamy in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Author / Editor
- Havely, Nick.
"I wolde . . . han hadde a fame': Dante, Fame, and Infamy in Chaucer's "House of Fame."
- Published
- Isabel Davis and Catherine Nall, eds. Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), pp. 43-56.
- Description
- Describes how in Book III of HF Chaucer engages with Dante's "Commedia", especially Canto XI of the "Purgatorio"; focuses particularly on speaking silences, tacit allusions, and concerns with infamy.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer and Fame: Reputation and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
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