Romancing the Rose: The Readings of Chaucer and Christine

Author / Editor
Driver, Martha W.

Title
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.