What Chaucer Did to Shakespeare: Books and Bodkins in "Hamlet" and "The Tempest."

Description: Argues that Shakespeare's reading of Thomas Speght's edition of Chaucer's "Works" (1598) provoked his creative imagination as well as providing source material, looking closely at how Chaucer's depiction of Julius Caesar's death in MkT affected Shakespeare's treatments of political assassination or overthrow in "Julius Caesar," "Hamlet," and "The Tempest," and observing more generally the influence of Chaucer's "voiced set of personal performances."

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Monk and His Tale