Malvolio the Fowler: A Note on Twelfth Night 3.4.74-75
- Author / Editor
- Rutter, Russell.
Malvolio the Fowler: A Note on Twelfth Night 3.4.74-75
- Published
- ELN 36.3 : 23-33. , 1999.
- Description
- Traces the history of the metaphor of Satan as a "fowler" who seeks to trap souls as he would trap birds. Discusses examples from the time of the Church fathers to Shakespeare, including three instances in which Chaucer employs related metaphors: WBT 3.932-34, LGWP F134-39, and TC 1.353.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Troilus and Criseyde.