Narrative Typology : Chaucer's Use of the Story of Orpheus
- Author / Editor
- Hardman, Phillipa.
Narrative Typology : Chaucer's Use of the Story of Orpheus
- Published
- Modern Language Review 85 (1990): 545-54.
- Description
- Chaucer employs the Orpheus story from Boethius in KnT and TC as an archetype of the tragedy of love. He relies on the Orpheus myth primarily as a narrative pattern, not as a philosophical fable or moral allegory.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.