'Maken Melodye': The Quality of Song in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Francis, Christina.
'Maken Melodye': The Quality of Song in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Georgiana Donavin and Anita Obermeier, eds. Romance and Rhetoric: Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney. Disputatio, no. 19. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010), pp. 149-70.
- Series
- Disputatio, no. 19.
- Description
- Contrasts human song and birdsong in GP, NPT, MilT, PrT, and PF: humans employ reason to understand and appreciate music, while birds sing purely for pleasure. Generally, the human voice is "an indicator of how Chaucer's characters misuse their voices to celebrate or pursue pleasure," and most of Chaucer's pilgrims are "inappropriate music makers."
- Contributor
- Donavin, Georgiana, ed.
- Obermeier, Anita, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Romance and Rhetoric: Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Miller and His Tale
- Prioress and Her Tale
- Parliament of Fowls