Traitors and Lovers: The Politics of Love in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women,' Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,' and Usk's 'Testament of Love'

Author / Editor
Hanrahan, Michael.

Title
Traitors and Lovers: The Politics of Love in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women,' Gower's 'Confessio Amantis,' and Usk's 'Testament of Love'

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 2248A.

Description
Richard II's reign produced political upheaval that redefined treason not only politically but also as reflected in literary depictions of love.
In LGWP, Alceste blunts Cupid's accusation of treason but sets up the absurd notion that "all men are traitors."

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.