Reading the "Prioress's Tale" in the Fifteenth Century: Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Marian Devotion

Author / Editor
Blurton, Heather, and Hannah Johnson.

Title
Reading the "Prioress's Tale" in the Fifteenth Century: Lydgate, Hoccleve, and Marian Devotion

Published
Chaucer Review 50.1-2 (2015): 134–58.

Description
Examines manuscript circulation of PrT showing Chaucer's reception as a Marian poet. This tale was not only used in devotional texts but was responded to in this register by Lydgate and Hoccleve.

Contributor
Johnson, Hannah.

Chaucer Subjects
Prioress and Her Tale
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion