Chaucer's Venuses
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Derek.
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.