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
5 - Chaucer and fifteenth-century romance: Partonope of Blois
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
Men speken of romances of prys,
Of Horn child and of Ypotys,
Of Beves and sir Gy,
Of sir Lybeux and Pleyndamour–
(Sir Thopas, VII, 897–900)What are the lessons that could be learned from Chaucer by any post-Chaucerian writer of romance in England, granted the way that Chaucer's poems show both his indebtedness to the English romances yet also his transcendence of conventional romance? One answer to this question is provided, not by those usually termed English and Scottish Chaucerians, but by the writing of an anonymous English ‘Chaucerian’, evidently steeped in a knowledge of Chaucer's poems but never naming the author he echoes so frequently. This English Chaucerian is the fifteenth-century translator from the French original of an English version of the romance of Partonope of Blois. Like Chaucer he is a freely creative translator, and – as with Chaucer's own silence about Boccaccio – a translating poet who does not acknowledge by name one of his principal inspirations. The direct influence of Chaucer in the Partonope translation manifests itself in many close verbal echoes of Chaucer's poems, usually confined to remembered phrases or single lines, and drawn from a range of Chaucer's works.
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- Chaucer TraditionsStudies in Honour of Derek Brewer, pp. 62 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990
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