Marcus Boxhorn's Misattribution of Verses from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" to John Gower.
- Author / Editor
- Levelt, Sjoerd.
Marcus Boxhorn's Misattribution of Verses from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" to John Gower.
- Published
- Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 14-16.
- Description
- Examines sources that Boxhorn drew upon for quoting GP and for (mis)identifying its author to show that, contrary to what scholars have believed, this seventeenth-century Dutch professor of history and rhetoric "was acquainted with neither Chaucer nor Gower."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales