Chaucer in the Queen Mab Speech.

Author / Editor
Maxwell, J. C.

Title
Chaucer in the Queen Mab Speech.

Published
Notes and Queries 205 (1960): 16

Description
Justifies accepting PF 99-105 as the more likely immediate source of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" 1.4.70-88 than Claudian's "De Sextu Consultat Honorii Augusti," Preface, 3-10, the ultimate source of both English texts.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations