The Audience Illuminated, or New Light Shed on the Dream Frame of Lydgate's 'Temple of Glas'

Author / Editor
Davidoff, Judith M.

Title
The Audience Illuminated, or New Light Shed on the Dream Frame of Lydgate's 'Temple of Glas'

Published
Studies in the Age of Chaucer 5 (1983): 103-25.

Description
Frame and vision are linked according to late-medieval literary expectations which establish in the dreamer a state of "need" and in the audience the expectation of that need to be "fulfilled."

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.