Chaucer's Death, Lydgate's Guild, and the Construction of Community in Fifteenth-Century English Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Whearty, Bridget.
Chaucer's Death, Lydgate's Guild, and the Construction of Community in Fifteenth-Century English Literature.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 40 (2018): 331-73.
- Description
- Identifies a "pray for Chaucer" trope in fifteenth-century commentary on the poet, observing a "metaphor of literary history" that is based in "guild-like community," underpinned by notions of purgatory, intercession, and friendship. Rooted in Thomad Hoccleve's attention to "communal responsibility for Chaucer's soul," and deepened by John Lydgate, the "'pray for Chaucer' tradition" was modified by William Caxton, reworked as an exclusionary "cult of Father Chaucer."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion