Nature's Limitations and the 'Demande d'Amour of Chaucer's 'Parlement'

Author / Editor
Oruch, Jack B.

Title
Nature's Limitations and the 'Demande d'Amour of Chaucer's 'Parlement'

Published
Chaucer Review 18 (1983): 23-37.

Description
Birds as the participants in the "demande d'amour" game are comic, as is Nature the judge: her ineptness is both risible and serious, as traditionally she is limited by the Fall.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.