Law, Chaucer, and Representation in Lydgate's "Disguising at Hertford."
- Author / Editor
- Lipton, Emma.
Law, Chaucer, and Representation in Lydgate's "Disguising at Hertford."
- Published
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology 113 (2014): 342-64.
- Description
- Demonstrates that in Lydgate's "Disguising" the wives' use of Chaucerian "performative and legalistic speech acts" is set in evocative conflict with the "theatricality of monarchical justice," arguing that Lydgate learned from Chaucer's WBPT how "requital works as dramatic principle" and how performative speech contests authority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Wife of Bath and Her Tale