'My Worldes Blisse': Chaucer's Tragedy of Fortune

Author / Editor
Fradenburg, Louise O.

Title
'My Worldes Blisse': Chaucer's Tragedy of Fortune

Published
South Atlantic Quarterly 98: 563-92, 1999.

Description
Using Freudian and Lacanian analysis, examines BD, ultimately "suggest[ing] that Chaucer used courtly love and the figure of Fortune to develop a poetics of tragic interiority that was decisive for the artificing of 'life' in subsequent periods."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.