The Seasons in Late Medieval Literature: Mutability and Metaphors of Good and Evil
- Author / Editor
- Cigman, Gloria.
The Seasons in Late Medieval Literature: Mutability and Metaphors of Good and Evil
- Published
- Etudes Anglaises 51 (1998) 131-42.
- Description
- Depictions of the seasons in late medieval literature are loci for considerations of good and evil, mutability and human responsibility. The conventional representation of the seasons are reversed in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," The Townley Nativity play, Chaucer's TC, and Henryson's "Testament of Cresseid" : spring brings sorrow, and winter brings hope.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.