Chaucer's Testament of Love: The Impact of the Confessio Amantis on the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Lindeboom, B. W.

Title
Chaucer's Testament of Love: The Impact of the Confessio Amantis on the Canterbury Tales

Published
Ph.D. diss., Free University, Amsterdam, 2003.

Physical Description
469 pp.

Description
In response to Gower's words to Chaucer at the end of "Confessio Amantis" (8.2941-57), Chaucer first revised LGWP and then completely restructured the plan for CT (e.g., taking Mel away from the Man of Law and giving him a "Gower" tale instead).

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Legend of Good Women.
Canterbury Tales--General.