Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Author / Editor
[Kiser, Lisa J.]

Title
Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Published
In Anthony Grafton, Glenn W. Most, and Salvatore Settis, eds. The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 2010).

Description
Encyclopedia entry that summarizes Chaucer's debt to classical tradition as source material for his plots, imaginings of the classical past, and "voicings" of classical speakers throughout his corpus. Comments on Chaucer's awareness of mediation and the necessary of "betraying" classical material.

Contributor
Grafton, Anthony, ed.
Most, Glenn W., ed.
Settis, Salvatore, ed.

Alternative Title
The Classical Tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Bibliography, Reports, and Reference