Who Is Buried in Chaucer's Tomb?

Joseph A. Dane examines the history of the books we now know as "Chaucer's"--a history that includes printers and publishers, editors, antiquarians, librarians, and book collectors. The Chaucer at issue here is not a medieval poet, securely bound within his fourteenth-century context, but rather the product of the often chaotic history of the physical books that have been produced and marketed in his name.

Joseph A. Dane is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He is author of The Critical Mythology of Irony, Parody: Critical Concepts vs. Literary Practices, and numerous articles on Chaucer and the history of printing.