Chaucer's Tragic Muse: The Paganization of Christian Tragedy
- Author / Editor
- Herold, Christine.
Chaucer's Tragic Muse: The Paganization of Christian Tragedy
- Published
- Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2003.
- Physical Description
- iv, 319 pp.
- Series
- Studies in Mediaeval Literature, no. 23.
- Description
- The medieval conceptualization of tragedy has its roots in classical tradition, especially Seneca as mediated by Boethius. Herold surveys classical, patristic, and medieval ideas of tragedy and the tragic, exploring how Chaucer, among others, "displays deep understanding of the Senecan tragedic conventions and the Boethian-Platonic innovations." Treats tragedy and the tragic in BD, the short poems, HF, PF, LGW, TC, and CT-especially SNPT, ClT, NPT, MkT, KnT, and MilT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Monk and His Tale.