In Love's Thrall: 'The Court of Love' and Its Captives
- Author / Editor
- Friedman, Bonita.
In Love's Thrall: 'The Court of Love' and Its Captives
- Published
- David Chamberlain, ed. New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems (Lanham, Md.; New York; and London: University Press of America, 1993), pp. 173-90.
- Description
- Thought to be the work of Chaucer until the 1870s, "The Court of Love" manipulates the conventions of love lyric and allegory, including several details from LGW, PF, and Pity. Such manipulation produces humor, depicting Philogenet as a kind of literary clown, one who mistakes erotic love for grace.
- Alternative Title
- New Readings of Late Medieval Love Poems.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.