Counterfeit Correspondences: Documentary Manipulations and Textual Consciousness in Gloucester's "Confession" and "The Man of Law's Tale."

Author / Editor
Lim, Hyanyang K.

Title
Counterfeit Correspondences: Documentary Manipulations and Textual Consciousness in Gloucester's "Confession" and "The Man of Law's Tale."

Published
Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 25.1 (2017): 67-97.

Description
Explores Chaucer's reservations about the reliability of written documents by examining Donegild's counterfeit letters in MLT and Thomas Woodstock, duke of Gloucester's "Confession", written in 1397. Examines problems of written documents implicated in both narratives, such as "documentary manipulations, fears of inception, and suspicions of forgery."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations