Chaucer's Pathos: Three Variations
- Author / Editor
- Guerin, Dorothy (Jane).
Chaucer's Pathos: Three Variations
- Published
- Chaucer Review 20 (1985): 90-112.
- Description
- Pairing three legends from LGW with three of the CT results in useful categories of Chaucer's pathos: Lucrece, PrT--naive portrayal of saintlike stereotype; Philomena, MLT--stock romantic figure of lady in distress; Hypermnestra, PhyT--pathetic, but not stereotyped, victim of temporal justice.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Prioress and Her Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Physician and His Tale.