'The Parliament of Fowls': A Literary Entertainment
- Author / Editor
- Hutchinson, Judith.
'The Parliament of Fowls': A Literary Entertainment
- Published
- Neophilologus 61 (1977): 143-51.
- Description
- A St. Valentine's Day entertainment, PF emphasizes the inevitable, though unembraced, participation in "kynde" of its audience. The narrator's use and misuse of his authorities frustrate the expectations of his readers, thereby forcing them to re-examine their courtly sophistication.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.