The Unity of Chaucer's "House of Fame.”
- Author / Editor
- Ruggiers, Paul G.
The Unity of Chaucer's "House of Fame.”
- Published
- Studies in Philology 50 (1953): 16-29.
- Description
- Argues that the unifying concern of HF is "the relationship of men to the mutable world through the agency of Fame," assessing similarities with BD and PF as love-visions, the influences of Dante and Boethius, and connections among the "sister goddesses"--Love, Fortune, and Fame--in HF. Also assesses various ideas about the identity of the unnamed man of great authority, suggesting Boethius as the most likely.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls