Hakluyt's Use of Chaucer.

Author / Editor
MacCrossan, Colm.

Title
Hakluyt's Use of Chaucer.

Published
Notes and Queries 264 (2019): 393-97.

Description
Assesses the inclusion of information from the GP description of the Knight in Richard Hakluyt's "The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation," where Hakluyt presents Chaucer's fiction "as a genuine historical source," joins it with data from Thomas Hoccleve's "Letter of Cupid" (attributed to Chaucer), and attempts to validate it with a "smothering of critical apparatus."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Chaucerian Apocrypha