Shakespeare Rewords Chaucer: "Troilus and Cressida."
- Author / Editor
- Lamb, Jonathan P.
Shakespeare Rewords Chaucer: "Troilus and Cressida."
- Published
- In Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 175-208.
- Description
- Argues that the glossary and other "editorial apparatus" of Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Workes" "yokes" Chaucer's language and lexicon "with his position as an English author," and that in his use of Speght's TC as source for "Troilus and Cressida" Shakespeare emulates this "linguistic emphasis" to raise "questions of signification" and evoke skepticism about words and values.
- Alternative Title
- Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde
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