Shakespeare's Reading in Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Coghill, Nevill.
Shakespeare's Reading in Chaucer.
- Published
- Herbert Davies, and Helen Gardner, eds. Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies: Presented to Percy Wilson in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon, 1959), pp. 86-99.
- Description
- Tallies a number of images, expressions, and "notional similarities" that evince Chaucer's influence on Shakespeare, reviewing previous scholarship, adding several examples, and arguing that the influence is strongest when Shakespeare was about thirty years old. Dissuades arguments that Shakespeare used Chaucer's plots.
- Contributor
- Gardner, Helen, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies: Presented to Percy Wilson in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion