Allegory, Irony, Despair: Chaucer's Pardoner's and Franklin's Tales and Spenser's Faerie Queene, Books I and III
- Author / Editor
- Anderson, Judith H.
Allegory, Irony, Despair: Chaucer's Pardoner's and Franklin's Tales and Spenser's Faerie Queene, Books I and III
- Published
- Zachary Lesser and Benedict S. Robinson, eds. Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, Technologies (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Burlington, Ver.: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 71-89.
- Description
- Explores intertextual relations between Spenser's Faerie Queene and Chaucer's PardPT and FranT. Archimago and Despair from Spenser's Book 1 gain dimension in light of the Pardoner and the Old Man of PardT; in Book 3, Spenser explores the "emotional plight" of Chaucer's Dorigen by dividing it into several parts.
- Contributor
- Lesser, Zachary, ed.
- Robinson, Renedict S., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Textual Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, Technologies.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.