The Aim Was Song: From Narrative to Lyric in 'The Parlement of Foules' and 'Love's Labours Lost'

Author / Editor
Krier, Theresa M.

Title
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.