Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine
- Author / Editor
- Driver, Martha W.
Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine
- Published
- Helen Cooney, ed. Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. 147-62.
- Description
- Driver explores how the Roman de la Rose was "re-written" for late medieval audiences in various ways: Chaucer advocates contemporary views of the work in his adaptation of La Vieille in WBP, and Pizan criticizes such views in her Book of the Three Virtues. Also comments on Prudence's role in Mel.
- Alternative Title
- Writings on Love in the English Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Tale of Melibee
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.