Chaucer's Testament of Love: The Impact of the Confessio Amantis on the Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Lindeboom, B. W.
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.