The 'Parlement of Foules': A Theodicy of Love

Author / Editor
Cooney, Helen.

Title
The 'Parlement of Foules': A Theodicy of Love

Published
Chaucer Review 32 (1998): 339-76.

Description
PF offers an example of Chaucer's intertextuality. The two "olde bokys" mentioned--Macrobius's commentary on "Somnium Scipionis" and Alain de Lille's "De planctu naturae"--inform the themes of suffering in love and the limitations of natural law in the poem.

Chaucer Subjects
Parliament of Fowls.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.