Chaucer Traditions : Studies in Honour of Derek Brewer (Paperback)

List of contributors; Preface Note on the text; 1. Chaucer traditions Barry Windeatt; 2. Gower - Chaucer's heir Richard Axton; 3. Chaucer and Lydgate Derek Pearsall; 4. Hoccleve and Chaucer J. A. Burrow; 5. Chaucer and fifteenth-century romance: Partonope of Blois Barry Windeatt; 6. Some Chaucerian themes in Scottish writers Douglas Gray; 7. The planetary gods in Chaucer and Henryson Jill Mann; 8. Gavin Douglas: 'Off Eloquence the flowand balmy strand' Ruth Morse; 9. Skelton's Garlande of Laurell and the Chaucerian tradition John Scattergood; 10. Chaucer in metre and early Tudor songs John Stevens; 11. Aspects of the Chaucerian apocrypha: animadversions on William Thynne's edition of the Plowman's Tale Thomas J. Heffernan; 12. The shape-shiftings of the Wife of Bath, 1395?1670 Helen Cooper; 13. The genius to improve an invention: transformations of the Knight's Tale Piero Boitani; 14. From the Clerk's Tale to The Winter's Tale Anna Baldwin; 15. The Virtuoso's Troilus Richard Beadle; 16. Rewriting romance: Chaucer's and Dryden's Wife of Bath's Tale A. C. Spearing; 17. Chaucer's religion and the Chaucer religion Charles Muscatine; 18. A list of the published writings of Derek Brewer Toshiyuki Takamiya; Index.