Chaucerian Topoi and Topography in Thomas Dekker's (and John Webster's) "Westward Ho" (1605) and "Northward Ho" (1607).

Author / Editor
Li, Chi-fang Sophia.

Title
Chaucerian Topoi and Topography in Thomas Dekker's (and John Webster's) "Westward Ho" (1605) and "Northward Ho" (1607).

Published
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 355-79.

Description
Demonstrates that Chaucerian estates satire in CT influenced the development of dramatic "city comedy” at the turn of the seventeenth century. Shows that in his "Ho" plays Dekker adapts Chaucer's London topographies, characterizations, themes, and motifs of game and play to develop "neo-Chaucerian topoi and topography . . . in which everyone is a 'homo viator' and 'homo ludens'.” Links these concerns with John Norden's 1593 map of London.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General