Spenser, Chaucer, and the Renaissance "Squire’s Tale."

Description: Reads Spenser's imitation of SqT in "Faerie Queene," Book IV, in light of MLE, which introduces SqT in early editions. The sequence alters the Squire's characterization and helps to frame SqT “as the product of an active, metafictional revision." When viewed together with KnT and Anel, the falcon’s complaint in SqT reveals "a pattern of Chaucerian self-revision that Spenser appropriates to claim his place in a variously national and international tradition."

Chaucer Subjects: Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Knight and His Tale
Man of Law and His Tale
Anelida and Arcite