Chaucer's Missing Children

Author / Editor
Cowgill, Jane.

Title
Chaucer's Missing Children

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 12 (1995): 39-53.

Description
As in late-medieval lyrics and drama, the suffering of mothers and children in Chaucer's works is presented as analogous to the suffering of Mary and Jesus. Surveys the presence and absence of references to children in Chaucer's works.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.