Classical Antiquity in Chaucer's Chivalric Romances
- Author / Editor
- Spearing, A. C.
Classical Antiquity in Chaucer's Chivalric Romances
- Published
- Susan J. Ridyard, ed. Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages (Sewanee, Tenn.: University of the South, 1999), pp. 53-73.
- Description
- Chaucer uses classical, pagan setting as a "screen" on which to "project alternatives to medieval social reality." He capitalizes on the strangeness of presenting classical privacy in TC. In KnT, especially in the temple of Diana, Chaucer explores the role of women in a masculinist society. The fusion of classical and Celtic in FranT creates a "fantasia" that may have inspired Shakespeare's Cymbeline.
- Alternative Title
- Chivalry, Knighthood, and War in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.
- Troilus and Criseyde.