Worthy Friends: Speght's Chaucer and Speght's Spenser.

Author / Editor
Chaghafi, Elisabeth.

Title
Worthy Friends: Speght's Chaucer and Speght's Spenser.

Published
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 168-88.

Description
Studies the paratextual materials that accompany and supplement the text of Chaucer's works in Speght's editions of 1598 and 1602, showing that these materials present Chaucer to early modern readers as ancient but still worth reading, in part because of Spenser's imitation of and high regard for his predecessor, mentioned by Speght.

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion