A Note on the Dramatic Point of View in Chaucer's 'Rosemounde': Carnal vs. Spiritual Love

Author / Editor
Barlow, Richard G.

Title
A Note on the Dramatic Point of View in Chaucer's 'Rosemounde': Carnal vs. Spiritual Love

Published
Theatre Southwest 14 (1987): 9-12.

Description
The love ballad "Rosemounde" is a "sophisticated dramatic monologue" in which Chaucer unconventionally develops the theme of carnal versus spiritual love "through the 'persona' of a boastful knight." Through the comic irony of the ballad and the use of oral narration, Chaucer the poet is identified with the persona.

Chaucer Subjects
To Rosemounde.