John Shirley, John Lydgate, and the Motives of Compilation.

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.

Title
John Shirley, John Lydgate, and the Motives of Compilation.

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 245-54.

Description
Suggests that John Shirley's motives for his scribal activities were "commercial," rather than antiquarian or courtly, motivated by a "shared interest" with John Lydgate.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies