Counterfeit Correspondences: Documentary Manipulations and Textual Consciousness in Gloucester's "Confession" and "The Man of Law's Tale."
- Author / Editor
- Lim, Hyanyang K.
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