Mary, Motherhood, and Theatricality in the Old Polish 'Listen, Dear Brothers' and Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Author / Editor
Czarnowus, Anna.

Title
Mary, Motherhood, and Theatricality in the Old Polish 'Listen, Dear Brothers' and Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale'

Published
Jane Tolmie and M. J. Toswell, eds. Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010), pp. 129-47.

Description
Compares the "theatricality of imagery" in MLT, particularly in Constance's prayer to the Virgin (2.841-54), with the Polish Marian crucifixion lament "Listen, Dear Brothers." Includes an English translation of the Polish lyric.

Alternative Title
Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations