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The House of Fame

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Author	Havely, Nick
Copyright Year	2016
Description	The House of Fame (HF) is twice acknowledged by Chaucer as his own work: in the list of his early work in the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women (l. 405 in this volume), and among the 'translacions and enditynges of worldly vanitees' which are mentioned at the end of the Canterbury Tales (I, l. 1086). The poem was also quite well known in its time. In the mid-1380s Thomas Usk paraphrased the narrator's and Dido's condemnation of male treachery (ll. 269–361) in his Testament of Love (II, ch. 3), and early in the fifteenth century Lydgate's Temple of Glas (which appears in all the manuscripts containing HF) contains a number of parallels and allusions.$ ^{1}$ Usk's allusions indicate that HF was in circulation by about 1385, and the allusion to rekenynges (l. 653), if it refers literally to Chaucer's book-keeping as Controller of customs, may mean that Book II at least was not begun before 1374.$ ^{2}$ The poem's interests, for instance in Boethius and the Troy story, might suggest a time of writing quite close to that of the Boece translation and the Troilus (i.e. the late 1370s or early 1380s), but attempts to date it more precisely (whether in relation to royal marriage negotiations or Chaucer's Italian journeys of 1372–3 and 1378) are at best speculative and at worst self-contradictory.$ ^{3}$ Book Name: Chaucer's Dream Poetry
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Ending Page	218
Page Count	107
Starting Page	112
DOI	10.4324/9781315846309-6
Language	English
Publisher	Informa UK Limited
Publisher Date	2016-02-04
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Book Name: Chaucer's Dream Poetry Medieval & Renaissance Studies Poem Book Allusions Chaucer House of Fame Usk 1380s
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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