Gower, Chaucer, and French Prose Arthurian Romance

Author / Editor
Kennedy, Edward Donald.

Title
Gower, Chaucer, and French Prose Arthurian Romance

Published
Mediaevalia 16 (1993, for 1990): 55-90.

Description
Both Gower and Chaucer limit their use of Arthurian material to brief allusions, although Gower's allusions are more numerous, specific, and morally serious than are Chaucer's. Chaucer's allusions in WBT, PF, HF, LGW, SqT, Th, NPT, and Ros suggest that he cared little for Arthurian romance.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.