A Southwark Tale: Gower, the 1381 Poll Tax, and Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Sobecki, Sebastian.
A Southwark Tale: Gower, the 1381 Poll Tax, and Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Speculum 92.3 (2017): 630-60.
- Description
- Argues that Chaucer spent much of the 1380s and 1390s in Southwark as a recipient of a sort of patronage from William Wykeham, chancellor of England, alongside others such as Gower and John Cobham. Asserts that GP is based on the format of the 1381 Southwark Poll Tax's "check-roll or counter roll" format, which contrasts other claims that GP is based on estates satire.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life