The Witness of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Brooke, Christopher N. L.

Title
The Witness of Chaucer

Published
Christopher N. L. Brooke. The Medieval Idea of Marriage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 211-27.

Description
Comments on the theme of marriage in Chaucer's works to indicate the poet's "capacious view of love and sexuality." Chaucer's representations of marriage range from bawdy humor in WBP to the sublime in BD, often combining more than one view, as in TC, which combines affection and satire. Also notes other works.

Alternative Title
The Medieval Idea of Marriage.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.