Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Note on the text
- 1 Chaucer traditions
- 2 Gower–Chaucer's heir?
- 3 Chaucer and Lydgate
- 4 Hoccleve and Chaucer
- 5 Chaucer and fifteenth-century romance: Partonope of Blois
- 6 Some Chaucerian themes in Scottish writers
- 7 The planetary gods in Chaucer and Henryson
- 8 Gavin Douglas: ‘Off Eloquence the flowand balmy strand’
- 9 Skelton's Garlande of Laurell and the Chaucerian tradition
- 10 Chaucerian metre and early Tudor songs
- 11 Aspects of the Chaucerian apocrypha: animadversions on William Thynne's edition of the Plowman's Tale
- 12 The shape-shiftings of the Wife of Bath, 1395–1670
- 13 The genius to improve an invention: transformations of the Knight's Tale
- 14 From the Clerk's Tale to The Winter's Tale
- 15 The Virtuoso's Troilus
- 16 Rewriting romance: Chaucer's and Dryden's Wife of Bath's Tale
- 17 Chaucer's religion and the Chaucer religion
- 18 A list of the published writings of Derek Brewer
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Note on the text
- 1 Chaucer traditions
- 2 Gower–Chaucer's heir?
- 3 Chaucer and Lydgate
- 4 Hoccleve and Chaucer
- 5 Chaucer and fifteenth-century romance: Partonope of Blois
- 6 Some Chaucerian themes in Scottish writers
- 7 The planetary gods in Chaucer and Henryson
- 8 Gavin Douglas: ‘Off Eloquence the flowand balmy strand’
- 9 Skelton's Garlande of Laurell and the Chaucerian tradition
- 10 Chaucerian metre and early Tudor songs
- 11 Aspects of the Chaucerian apocrypha: animadversions on William Thynne's edition of the Plowman's Tale
- 12 The shape-shiftings of the Wife of Bath, 1395–1670
- 13 The genius to improve an invention: transformations of the Knight's Tale
- 14 From the Clerk's Tale to The Winter's Tale
- 15 The Virtuoso's Troilus
- 16 Rewriting romance: Chaucer's and Dryden's Wife of Bath's Tale
- 17 Chaucer's religion and the Chaucer religion
- 18 A list of the published writings of Derek Brewer
- Index
Summary
For Derek Brewer
The essays in this volume have been contributed by colleagues, friends and former pupils in honour of Derek Brewer in the year of his retirement, and as an affectionate tribute to his achievements in the study of medieval literature and especially of Chaucer.
Derek Brewer was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was taught by C. S. Lewis and J. A. W. Bennett, and took up his first appointment as a lecturer in English at Birmingham University in 1949. From 1956 to 1958 he lectured at Keio University in Tokyo, returning to Birmingham until 1965, when he was appointed a lecturer in the Faculty of English in the University of Cambridge, and elected a Fellow of Emmanuel College. A Readership in Medieval English followed in 1976, and Derek Brewer was elected Master of Emmanuel College in 1977, and Professor of Medieval English in 1983.
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- Chaucer TraditionsStudies in Honour of Derek Brewer, pp. ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990