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.

Title
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.