Chaucer in Ireland: Archaism, Etymology and the Idea of Development.

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. 98-112.

Description: Argues that an "ambivalent enterprise of simultaneous innovation and retrospection . . . structures Spenser's approach to the reform of Ireland" as well as his "engagement with Chaucer in his poetry." Analyzes Spenser's use and explanation of two examples of Chaucerian diction in "A View of the Present State of Ireland"--"Checklaton" and "borough," both derived from Th--drawing parallels between the uses of the past in Chaucerian etymologies and in recommendations for Irish reform.

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Tale of Sir Thopas
Language and Word Studies