The Hope for 'Pleasaunce': Richard Roos' Translation of Alain Chartier's 'La Belle Dame sans mercy'
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Melissa L.
The Hope for 'Pleasaunce': Richard Roos' Translation of Alain Chartier's 'La Belle Dame sans mercy'
- Published
- David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 119-43.
- Description
- Thought to be the work of Chaucer until 1775, Roos's translation clarifies the role of the Lover as a "woful lover." The humor and criticism of the poem are aimed at the Lover, not the Lady.
- Alternative Title
- New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.