Chaucerian Gardens and the Spirit of Play
- Author / Editor
- Bleeth, Kenneth.
Chaucerian Gardens and the Spirit of Play
- Published
- Laura L. Howes, ed. Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2007), pp.107-17.
- Description
- Bleeth examines the ways that gardens in TC, KnT, MerT, and FranT reveal Chaucer's discomfort with the aristocratic fantasy of "pure play," idealized in the Roman de la Rose and separated from the world.
- Contributor
- Howes, Laura, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Place, Space, and Landscape in Medieval Narrative.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Knight and His Tale.
- Merchant and His Tale.
- Franklin and His Tale.