Remodeling Authorship in Lydgate’s "Fall of Princes."

Description: Examines authorship and literary authority in the frame narrative of John Lydgate's "Fall of Princes," considering his references to Chaucer as well as to other poets, and arguing that Lydgate did not give a "disproportionate amount of literary authority" to Chaucer, despite referring to him as "maistir" and giving him more lines than the others. More generally, Lydgate's references to predecessors construct "a community of fellow authors who participate in a non-competitive model of authorship."