The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse
- Author / Editor
- Schmitz, Gotz.
The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- Physical Description
- ix, 300 pp.
- Series
- European Studies in English Literature.
- Description
- English translation, with a new preface, of Die Frauenklage: Studies zur englischen Verserzahlung in der englischen Literature des Spatmittelalter und der Renaissance (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1984). Investigates the relations between subject matter and poetic form in the woman's complaint, tracing its roots in classical tradition, the influence of Continental models, and the development of the English tradition from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and beyond.
- LGW and the Dido episode of HF are important models for Renaissance treatment, influencing form, tone, and specific subjects.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Legend of Good Women.
- House of Fame.