(Un)veiling the Veil: Trojan Temporalities, Chaucerian Ekphrasis and Literary Innovation in Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece.”

Author / Editor
Rouse, Margitta.

Title
(Un)veiling the Veil: Trojan Temporalities, Chaucerian Ekphrasis and Literary Innovation in Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece.”

Published
Andrew James Johnston, Margitta Rouse, and Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, eds. Transforming Topoi: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition (Göttingen: V&R, 2018), pp. 59-88.

Description
Argues that Shakespeare's exploration of the "nature of literary adaptation-as-innovation" in "The Rape of Lucrece"--conducted by means of “competing versions of the Troy story"--engages with the "Chaucerian poetics" of HF and TC, particularly "Chaucer's thoughts on veiled and veiling authorities" evident in the ekphrastic account of Troy in HF.

Contributor
Johnston, Andrew James, ed.
Rouse, Margitta, ed.
Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm, ed.

Alternative Title
Transforming Topoi: The Exigencies and Impositions of Tradition.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
House of Fame
Troilus and Criseyde