Ironic Reversal of Expectations in Chaucerian and Shakespearean Gardens

Author / Editor
Roberts, Valerie S.

Title
Ironic Reversal of Expectations in Chaucerian and Shakespearean Gardens

Published
Chaucerian Shakespeare (Ann Arbor: Michigan Consortium for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 1983), pp. 97-117.

Description
The gardens of MerT and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are not idyllic "gardens of love" but "gardens of vanity," the setting for human deceit, folly, and cruelty.

Alternative Title
Chaucerian Shakespeare.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Merchant and His Tale.