Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance

ISBN: 0813015529

Author: Theresa M. Krier

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"A well-focused look at the variety of uses to which Chaucer's texts were put in the 16th and 17th centuries . . . will interest scholars who want to cross boundaries between medieval and Renaissance studies, and will appeal with special force to people who in fact work on both."--Lars Engle, University of TulsaThis collection of essays surveys the diverse receptions and workings of Chaucer from the early 16th to the early 17th century. It emphasizes the many kinds of influence that Chaucer and his poems exerted on British letters and culture during these years and assesses how "Chaucer"--poet, works, and representations by others--became a cultural category that changed in Tudor and early Jacobean England, as the Reformation and increasing distance from Middle English made Chaucer representative of a lost medieval past.ContentsIntroduction: Receiving Chaucer in Renaissance England, by Theresa M. KrierPart I. Forming Canons"Wrastling for this world": Wyatt and the Tudor Canonization of Chaucer, by John WatkinsAuthority and the Defense of Fiction: Renaissance Poetics and Chaucer's House of Fame, by Carol A. N. MartinThomas Speght's Renaissance Chaucer and the solaas of sentence in Troilus and Criseyde, by Clare KinneyPart II. Claims for Narrative Poetry: Chaucer and SpenserNarrative Reflections: Re-envisaging the Poet in The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queene, by Judith H. Anderson"Sundrie Doubts": Vulnerable Understanding and Dubious Origins in Spenser's Continuation of the Squire's Tale, by Craig A. BerryIdolatrous Idylls: Protestant Iconoclasm, Spenser's Daphnada, and Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, by Glenn SteinbergPart III. Gender and the Translation of GenreRoom of One's Own for Decisions: Chaucer and The Faerie Queene, by A. Kent HieattThe Aim Was Song: From Narrative to Lyric in The Parlement of Foules and Love's Labour's Lost, by Theresa M. KrierJacobean Chaucer: The Two Noble Kinsmen and Other Chaucerian Plays, by Helen CooperTheresa M. Krier, associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Gazing on Secret Sights: Spenser, Classical Imitation, and the Decorums of Vision and of essays on ancient, medieval, and Renaissance poetry.