The Eighteenth-Century Chaucer and the Rewriting of English History.
- Author / Editor
- Larson, Eric.
The Eighteenth-Century Chaucer and the Rewriting of English History.
- Published
- CEA Critic 85 (2023): 260–66
- Description
- Locates eighteenth-century modernizations of CT in their history and political context. Points out that these texts are produced during a time when religious debates, the Glorious Revolution, the rise of the Hanoverian line of monarchs, and potential military conflicts with France and Germany affect how England views its medieval past. Focuses on Henry Brooke's rewriting of MLT produced in 1741. Brooke's revision of Chaucer is an effort to promote Protestantism: it reflects eighteenth-century anxieties about political upheaval by presenting a version of ancient Britain that finds stability in its religious and political institutions.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Man of Law and His Tale