The 'Parlement of Foules': A Theodicy of Love
- Author / Editor
- Cooney, Helen.
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.