"And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete": Chaucer's Earliest Readers, Addressees and Audiences.

Author / Editor
Sobecki, Sebastian.

Title
"And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete": Chaucer's Earliest Readers, Addressees and Audiences.

Published
Critical Survey 29.3 (2017): 7-14.

Description
Explores what we know about Chaucer's earliest audiences, and how his work was used and discussed in his lifetime. Considers use of manuscripts by Hoccleve and Chaucer's named addressees, Bukton, Scogan, and de la Vache. Lists contemporary references to Chaucer in the poetry of Gower, Deschamps, Clanvowe, and Usk

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Envoy to Bukton
Envoy to Scogan
Truth