At the Crossroads: Intersections of Classical and Vernacular English Protest Literature in "Pierce Penilesse."
- Author / Editor
- Bennett, Kristen Abbott.
At the Crossroads: Intersections of Classical and Vernacular English Protest Literature in "Pierce Penilesse."
- Published
- Upstart: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, August 10, 2015: n.p.
- Description
- Includes discussion of the influence of Chaucer's Purse and Thomas Hoccleve's "La male regle" on Thomas Nashe's "Pierce Penilesse," examining the elements of comedy and "moral uncertainty" in Chaucer's poem and its "accretion of polygeneric expectations," as well as its echoes of Ovid and impact on Hoccleve and Nashe. Available at https://upstart.sites.clemson.edu/Essays/protest/bennett_crossroads.xhtml.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion