Chaucer's Tragic Muse: The Paganization of Christian Tragedy

Author / Editor
Herold, Christine.

Title
Chaucer's Tragic Muse: The Paganization of Christian Tragedy

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 55 (1995): 2382A.

Description
Discusses the differences and similarities between classical Greek ideas and late Roman and medieval Christian concepts of tragedy, focusing on Lucias Annaeus Seneca and his influence on the works of Chaucer, Jean de Meun, and Boccaccio.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.