'To Rosemonde': Chaucer's 'Gentil' Dramatic Monologue
- Author / Editor
- Vasta, Edward.
'To Rosemonde': Chaucer's 'Gentil' Dramatic Monologue
- Published
- Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 97-113.
- Description
- The speaker of Ros appears to be the earliest instance of the "persona" whom Chaucer presents in full dress in BD and develops in all subsequent major works. This early conception is already so complex and original as to justify the scribe's admiring "tres gentil."
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- To Rosemounde.