Natural Feeling and Unnatural Mothers: Herod the Great, 'The Life of Saint Bridget,' and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Krug, Rebecca.
Natural Feeling and Unnatural Mothers: Herod the Great, 'The Life of Saint Bridget,' and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale'
- Published
- Jane Tolmie and M. J. Toswell, eds. Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2010), pp. 225-41.
- Description
- Explores the depictions of grief over lost children in the Wakefield mystery play "Slaughter of the Innocents"; a Middle English life of Saint Bridget; and ClT. The depictions present grief as variously natural, unnatural, and a response to conflict; however, grief transforms the mother figure in each work.
- Alternative Title
- Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations