Chaucer's Venuses

Author / Editor
Brewer, Derek.

Title
Chaucer's Venuses

Published
Juliette Dor, ed. A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck (Liege: University of Liege, 1992), pp. 30-40.

Description
In Chaucer's works, the wide spectrum of Venus's portrayals, from mythographical Venus to planetary Venus, represents "some profound human problems in the relations of men and women" and contributes "significantly to the rich variety" with which Chaucer represents women. Considers HF, PF, KnT, Mars, MerT, WBP, and TC.

Alternative Title
Wyf Ther Was.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.