A Defence of Dorigen's Complaint

Author / Editor
Morgan, Gerald.

Title
A Defence of Dorigen's Complaint

Published
Medium Aevum 46 (1977): 77-97.

Description
Rather than an incoherent outpouring of emotions, Dorigen's Complaint (FranT, 5.1355-456) is a coherent, moral response to the random world Aurelius presents her. Chaucer manipulates "exempla" from Jerome's "Adversus Jovinianum" to compose a rhetorical complaint dealing with chastity (1367-423), fidelity (1424-41), and honor (1442-56).

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale.