Courtly Writing
- Author / Editor
- Windeatt, Barry.
Courtly Writing
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 90-109.
- Description
- Windeatt examines how the court and elements of courtly writing are represented and function in BD, HF, PF, and LGWP, with some attention to SqT. Comments on Machaut as Chaucer's model and how the dream vision gives Chaucer the liberty to examine both "the ethos and practice of courtly conduct" and "the checks and balances of power in courtly life." The act of courtly speech is crucial in all of the dream visions.
- Alternative Title
- A Concise Companion to Chaucer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Squire and His Tale.