The 'Bisynesse' of Love in Chaucer's Dawn-Songs

Author / Editor
Scattergood, John.

Title
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.