Treachery in Chaucer's Poetry

Author / Editor
Wurtele, Douglas J.

Title
Treachery in Chaucer's Poetry

Published
Fifteenth-Century Studies 18 (1991): 315-43.

Description
Argues that a "climate" of social and political treachery prevailed in Chaucer's England, considers its effects on Chaucer's work, and surveys the poet's incorporation of the theme of treachery in his major poems.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Chaucer's Life.