Romancing Geoffrey: Chaucer and Romance in the Manuscript Tradition.

Author / Editor
Griffith, Gareth

Title
Romancing Geoffrey: Chaucer and Romance in the Manuscript Tradition.

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. 137-49.

Description
Focuses on elements of the "popular romance" in the manuscripts of "The Tale of Gamelyn" and "The Tale of "Beryn" and excerpts from Chaucer's works in other manuscripts to show how "the 'Chaucer' presented to early modern readers by the manuscript processes of insertion and excerption took on an increased interest in violence, anti-clericalism, games of incompleteness and imitation, and women suffering from male desire. In short, in significant respects, he became more Spenserian."

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Chaucerian Apocrypha