Title: Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance
Description: This collection of essays surveys the diverse receptions and workings of Chaucer from the early sixteenth to the early seventeenth 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.
Subjects: Literature, Knowledge, Appreciation, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), English literature, Influence, Medievalism, History and criticism, Renaissance, Canon (Literature), Middle Ages in literature, History, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Spenser, edmund, 1552?-1599, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Renaissance, england, Influence littéraire, artistique, Histoire, Médiévisme, Moyen Âge dans la littérature, Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature), POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Art appreciation, Early modern, Receptie, English, Languages & Literatures, Knowledge and learning
Places: England
People: Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700, 17th century, 16th century