The Aim Was Song: From Narrative to Lyric in 'The Parlement of Foules' and 'Love's Labours Lost'
- Author / Editor
- Krier, Theresa M.
The Aim Was Song: From Narrative to Lyric in 'The Parlement of Foules' and 'Love's Labours Lost'
- Published
- Theresa M. Krier, ed. Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998), pp. 165-88.
- Description
- PF and "Love's Labours Lost" develop similar relations between lyrics and poetic or dramatic narratives. Shakespeare emulated Chaucer's movement from narrative to song--a psychoanalytic release from courtly or social constraint into "cosmic, creative eros."
- Alternative Title
- Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.