Chaucer's Romances

Author / Editor
Saunders, Corinne [J.]

Title
Chaucer's Romances

Published
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary. (Malden, Mass: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 85-103.

Description
Chaucer transcended and transgressed the commonly accepted conventions of "romance": Th parodies the genre, while BD elevates its status by associating romance with classical works. Th, KnT, SqT, FranT, and WBT reflect a variety of approaches to romance. In TC, Chaucer combines realism and romance and raises "existential questions relating to free will, faith, and transience."

Alternative Title
A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary.

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Knight and His Tale.
Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
Squire and His Tale.
Franklin and His Tale.
Tale of Sir Thopas.