Chaucer's Use of the Lament for the Dead
- Author / Editor
- Haas, Renate.
Chaucer's Use of the Lament for the Dead
- Published
- Julian N. Wasserman and Robert J. Blanch, eds. Chaucer in the Eighties (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1986), pp. 23-37.
- Description
- Studies Chaucer's clever exploitation of the ambiguities between the laments of the lover and the mourner and his manipulation of traditional didactic patterns containing laments for the dead in Pity, BD, SqT, LGW (Thisbe), MLT, PhyT, ManT, TC, and NPT.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer in the Eighties.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.