Chaucer, Nashe, and "The Choice of Valentines."

Author / Editor
Evans, Robert C.

Title
Chaucer, Nashe, and "The Choice of Valentines."

Published
James M. Dean, ed. Geoffrey Chaucer (Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press, 2017), pp. 201-15.

Description
Presents overlap between Chaucer's writings and the writings of Thomas Nashe, particularly the late sixteenth-century poem "The Choice of Valentines," which is "considered to be the most pornographic piece of writing to survive" Shakespeare's time. Argues that Nashe's poem is connected to Chaucer in that "both writers often taught traditional Christian messages by using highly ironic methods."

Alternative Title
Geoffrey Chaucer: Critical Insights Series

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations