John Gower and Chaucer's Fabliaux.

Published: Richard Firth Green and R. F. Yeager, eds. "Of latine and of othire lare": Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2022), pp. 82-100.

Description: Proposes that the so-called "quarrel" between Chaucer and Gower found in MLP pertains to their uses of Ovidian, fabliau-like material, reading several tales of "Confessio Amantis" as experiments in "fabliauesque" narrative, purged of "schoolboy humour" and obscene language. Argues that echoes of Chaucer's fabliaux in Gower's purged tales indicate that influence generally "flowed from Chaucer to Gower" in this regard; ManT, however, might be a response to Gower's "Tale of Hercules and Faunus."

Alternative Title: "Of latine and of othire lare": Essays in Honour of David R. Carlson

Chaucer Subjects: Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Chaucer's Life
Maniciple and His Tale