The Progeny of Print: Manuscript Adaptations of John Speed's Chaucer Engraving

Author / Editor
Singh, Devani.

Title
The Progeny of Print: Manuscript Adaptations of John Speed's Chaucer Engraving

Published
Digital Philology 9.2 (2020): 177–98; 4 color illus.

Description
Explains the important place in the tradition of Chaucer portraiture of John Speed's engraving made for Thomas Speght's 1598 edition of Chaucer's "Workes". Comments on relations with the manuscript portrait of Chaucer that accompanies Thomas Hoccleve's "Regiment of Princes" and clarifies the influence of Speed's engraving on later Chaucer portraits in manuscripts, in books, and painted.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations