Event time:
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - 5:30pm
Location:
Linsly-Chittenden Hall (LC), LC 319
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
63 High St.
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Geoffrey Chaucer was at once a valued predecessor and an awkwardly over-present embarrassment to sixteenth-century English literati. Paul Strohm will consider the avid engagement of Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene, Gabriel Harvey, and Edmund Spenser with a forbear they did, and didn’t, want to claim.
Paul Strohm is author of the recent Chaucer’s Tale: 1386 and the Road to Canterbury. He is Garbedian Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at Columbia University; former J.R.R. Tolkien Professor at the University of Oxford; and Distinguished University Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London.
Open to:
General Public