The Brooch of Thebes and The Girdle of Venus : Courtly Love in an Oppositional Perspective
- Author / Editor
- Takada, Yasunari.
The Brooch of Thebes and The Girdle of Venus : Courtly Love in an Oppositional Perspective
- Published
- Poetica (Tokyo) 29-30 (1988): 17-38.
- Description
- Takada complicates traditional notions of "courtly love" by adducing Continental examples of marital love and English examples of extramarital sex outside of nonfabliau settings, focusing on the two motifs of the brooch and the girdle. Argues that the depiction of adultery in "Mars" is unique in many ways.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars.