The Glass of Form: Mirroring Structures from Chaucer to Skelton
- Author / Editor
- Torti, Anna.
The Glass of Form: Mirroring Structures from Chaucer to Skelton
- Published
- Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1991.
- Physical Description
- ix, 138 pp.
- Description
- Torti's introduction explores the Christian and classical precedents for mirror metaphors in late-medieval English literature and surveys medieval tradition. Subsequent chapters discuss mirror imagery in Lydgate's Temple of Glass, Hoccleve's Regement of Princes, and Skelton's Bowge of Courte and Speke Parrot. Chapter two analyzes the mirroring of earthly and divine love in TC.
- Criseyde's love mirrors Troilus's; Pandarus's art mirrors the narrator's. Human love and human writing are only images of divine love and divine truth. The Christian ending of the poem successfully mirrors its pagan plot.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.