Compilation as Commentary: Controlling Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Author / Editor
- Boyd, David Lorenzo.
Compilation as Commentary: Controlling Chaucer's 'Parliament of Fowls'
- Published
- South Atlantic Quarterly 91 (1992): 945-64.
- Description
- The placement of Chaucer's PF in MS Bodley 638, MS Laud Misc. 416, and MS Digby 181 suggests that the poem can be interpreted, respectively, as suggesting the value of courtly love, stressing the importance of "proper governance," and illustrating an "exercise on proper decision making."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.