'In his old dress": Packaging Thomas Speght's Chaucer for Renaissance Readers.

Author / Editor
Singh, Devani.

Title
'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