Chaucer

Author / Editor
Saunders, Corinne J.

Title
Chaucer

Published
Corinne J. Saunders. The Forest of Medieval Romance: Arvernus, Broceliande, Arden. (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1993), pp. 155-62.

Description
Explores Chaucer's use of romance conventions of the forest and the hunt. BD offers a particularly "artificial forest," reflecting the artifice of the work. In FrT, the forest is a kind of hell; in TC, the place of greatest freedom. WBT overturns the conventional otherliness of the forest but then reaffirms it.

Alternative Title
The Forest of Medieval Romance: Arvernus, Broceliande, Arden.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.