'Pite for to Here--Pite for to Se': Some Scenes of Pathos in Late Medieval Literature

Author / Editor
Gray, Douglas.

Title
'Pite for to Here--Pite for to Se': Some Scenes of Pathos in Late Medieval Literature

Published
Proceedings of the British Academy 87 (1995): 67-99.

Description
Surveys the art and rhetoric of scenes of sorrow or pity in Chaucer, Gower, Langland, Henryson, Malory, and others, arguing that Chaucer is "undoubtedly the master of the various modes of pathetic writing" in the period. Comments on scenes in KnT, MLT, ClT, MkT, LGW, and TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Canterbury Tales--General.
Legend of Good Women.
Troilus and Criseyde.