'In his old dress": Packaging Thomas Speght's Chaucer for Renaissance Readers.
- Author / Editor
- Singh, Devani.
'In his old dress": Packaging Thomas Speght's Chaucer for Renaissance Readers.
- Published
- Chaucer Review 51.04 (2016): 478-502.
- Description
- Focuses on three letters that preface Thomas Speght's Chaucer editions, which "conceive, invite, and attempt to influence their audiences." Argues that these letters reveal that the intended audience included both the established audience for Chaucer and "a wider readership of consumers uninitiated into studying the poet and his Middle English."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations