The Earl of Suffolk's French Poems and Shirley's Virtual Coteries.
- Author / Editor
- Perry, R. D.
The Earl of Suffolk's French Poems and Shirley's Virtual Coteries.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 38 (2016): 299-308.
- Description
- Argues that the scribe John Shirley cultivates a "virtual coterie" in the series of headnotes that he attaches to his copying of five French poems that he attributes (or misattributes) to William de la Pole, the earl of Suffolk. Shirley emulates John Lydgate in constructing this "communal form of poetic agency." Also comments on Shirley's headnote to Bo in British Library, Additional MS 16165.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies
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