Chaucer and Dickens Use Luke 23.34

Author / Editor
Besserman, Lawrence [L.]

Title
Chaucer and Dickens Use Luke 23.34

Published
Chaucer Review 41(2006): 99-104.

Description
Given his interest in Chaucer and his ownership of a copy of TC, Dickens's "comic literary use of the motif of 'Christ-forgives-his-killers'" may be an echo of Chaucer's use of the motif, which is based on Luke 23.34, in TC 3.1577.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
Troilus and Criseyde.