Chapter 3. “For Every Man to Read That Is Disposed”: Chaucer the Proto-Protestant

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. A Note on Spelling and Punctuation ix
4. Introduction. “Only by Thy Books”: Knowing Chaucer in Early Modern England 1
5. Chapter 1. The First First Folios: Chaucer’s Works in Print 17
6. Chapter 2. “Noster Galfridus”: Chaucer’s Early Modern Biographies 44
7. Chapter 3. “For Every Man to Read That Is Disposed”: Chaucer the Proto-Protestant 73
8. Chapter 4. “Difficulties Opened”: Confronting Chaucer’s Archaism in Spenser and the 1598/1602 Works 100
9. Chapter 5. Chaucer’s Herald: The Work of Francis Thynne 130
10. Chapter 6. Chaucer’s Scholarly Readers in Seventeenth-Century England 163
11. Coda. Chaucer in the House of Fame 198
12. Notes 205
13. Bibliography 249
14. Index 267
15. Acknowledgments 276