The Owl and the Cuckoo: Shakespeare's Natural Dialogue

Author / Editor
Mulryne, J. R.

Title
The Owl and the Cuckoo: Shakespeare's Natural Dialogue

Published
M[arie]-T[hérèse] Jones-Davies, ed. Le Dialogue au Temps de la Renaissance. Centre de Recherches sur la Renaissance, no. 9 (Paris: Jean Touzot, 1984), pp. 169-83.

Description
Places Shakespeare's bird dialogue from the end of "Love's Labour's Lost" in the tradition of bird debates, commenting on other examples of the genre, and noting parallels with PF and Sir John Clanvowe's "The Boke of Cupid," attributed to Chaucer during Shakespeare's lifetime.

Contributor
Jones-Davies, M[arie]-T[hérèse], ed.

Alternative Title
Le Dialogue au Temps de la Renaissance.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Parliament of Fowls
Chaucerian Apocrypha