A Credible Debt: Dekker as Host to Chaucer's Franklin.
- Author / Editor
- Hanna, Natalie.
A Credible Debt: Dekker as Host to Chaucer's Franklin.
- Published
- Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 380-403.
- Description
- Shows that in his pamphlet "A Strange Horse-Race," Thomas Dekker quotes FranT “to illustrate hospitality” and the force of “binding oaths”; in his play "The Shoemaker’'s Holiday," he "drew on Chaucer's Franklin for material about credit and debt." Because Chaucer was reputed to be a debtor, and concerned with patience, obligation, and binding language, Dekker relied on Chaucer as "a model . . . not just as writer, but also as a debtor."
- Alternative Title
- Comparative Drama 55 (2021)
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion