Performing Manuscript Culture: Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes."

Author / Editor
Kempf, Elisabeth.

Title
Performing Manuscript Culture: Poetry, Materiality, and Authorship in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes."

Published
Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2017.

Physical Description
x, 208 pp.; illus.

Description
Examines questions of autobiography, authorship, legacy, and the "Fürstenspiegel" genre in Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes," with attention to its manuscript presentations and to its images of Chaucer and of Hoccleve himself, discussing the "minor differences" in the versions of the Chaucer portraits and their "major consequences for the text-image relation." Includes comments on the putative accuracy of Hoccleve's portrait of Chaucer, other portraits of him, and a "clear reference" to the Wife of Bath in Hoccleve's poem. Based on the author's 2014 dissertation, Freie Universität.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion