The 'Bisynesse' of Love in Chaucer's Dawn-Songs
- Author / Editor
- Scattergood, John.
The 'Bisynesse' of Love in Chaucer's Dawn-Songs
- Published
- Essays in Criticism 37 (1987): 110-20.
- Description
- Chaucer adapts the conventional dawn-song contrast between work and love as activities appropriate to day and night, respectively, in TC and the fabliaux, where "bisynesse" is used to connote lovemaking as the proper work of the night.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Troilus and Criseyde.