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- W255652187 abstract "TRUTH, TRANSLATION, AND THE TROY BOOK WOMEN by Lynn Shutters When one thinks of the great writers of Middle English verse, John Lydgate is not likely to come to mind. Lydgate’s vast corpus of writing has often been relegated to a somewhat embarrassing footnote in the annals of medieval literature, and it is relatively recently, in the last thirty years or so, that he has received any critical attention at all. De- spite some resurgence of interest in Lydgate, he is still frequently dis- missed as a deficient poet whose dullness nonetheless serves to empha- size just how exceptional other poets, particularly Chaucer, are in com- parison. 1 The casting of Lydgate as Chaucer’s eager yet ineffective disciple figures prominently in studies of Lydgate’s Troy Book, a work that provides ample opportunity for comparison with Chaucer because it includes the pseudo-classical myth of Troilus and Cressida, and be- cause Lydgate himself repeatedly refers to and compares his work with Troilus and Criseyde. How Lydgate depicts himself vis-a-vis his “Maister Chaucer” is certainly of some interest, as Chaucer’s colossal presence in Lancastrian England was both a sheltering aegis and a daunting challenge to poets working in the English vernacular. There are problems, however, with reading Lydgate solely in Chaucer’s shadow, for when we allow the Chaucerian sections of the Troy Book to serve as a stand-in for the work as a whole, other parts of the text, those parts which do not relate so directly to a literary giant, are all but ig- nored. Some scholars have already begun the process of reevaluating the Troy Book by considering how it figures in the tumultuous political happenings occurring with the deposition of Richard II and the precari- ous rise of the Lancasters. Such studies focus by and large on the Pro- logue and closing of the poem, points at which Lydgate invokes his See, for example, Derek Pearsall’s John Lydgate (London 1970), in which Pearsall describes Lydgate as typically medieval and thus mundane: “His [Lydgate’s] claim on us, his usefulness to us, is precisely this, that he is perfectly typical of medieval literary tradition, and provides us with a series of paradigms for our reading of medieval poetry. Prince Hal no doubt enjoyed Falstaff’s company more, as we enjoy Chaucer’s but he saw the value of cultivating Poins: Thou art a blessed fellow to think as every man thinks: never a man’s thought in the world keeps the roadway better than thine” (18)." @default.
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