Chaucer's "Beast Group" and "Mother Hubberds Tale."

Author / Editor
O’Connell, Brendan.

Title
Chaucer's "Beast Group" and "Mother Hubberds Tale."

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. 189-211

Description
Observes that in sixteenth-century editions of CT, ManT follows NPT, and that after c. 1550 the pair is followed by the story of the Pelican and Griffin from the apocryphal "Plowman’s Tale," then the references to fables in ParsP, providing a "powerful model" for the linking of three animal fables in Spenser's "Complaints." Focuses particularly on "Prosopopoia, or Mother Hubberds Tale," exploring Chaucer's and Spenser'7s presentations of the poet as satirist and mimic.

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General