Malory, the Stanzaic "Morte Arthur," the Alliterative "Morte Arthure," and Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Kennedy, Edward Donald.
Malory, the Stanzaic "Morte Arthur," the Alliterative "Morte Arthure," and Chaucer.
- Published
- Arthuriana 28.3 (2018): 51-65.
- Description
- Argues that Malory downplayed his uses of the Stanzaic "Morte Arthur" and the Alliterative "Morte Arthure" in his "Le Morte Darthur" because the cultural prestige of native English romances was low--an attitude popularized by Chaucer in Th and elsewhere.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion