'We Ben to Lewed or to Slowe': Chaucer's Astronomy and Audience Participation
- Author / Editor
- Eade, J. C.
'We Ben to Lewed or to Slowe': Chaucer's Astronomy and Audience Participation
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982): 53-85.
- Description
- Examines ways in which Chaucer called upon his readers' mental agility and elementary acquaintance with astronomy to show how passages customarily regarded as difficult or impenetrable yield to orderly analysis once their technical apparatus has been mastered. Comments on ParsP and MerT but concentrates on FranT, Mars, and MLT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Complaint of Mars.