The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
- Author / Editor
- Roe, John, ed.
The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 301 pp.
- Series
- The New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Description
- Includes discussion (pp. 35-41) of the influence of Chaucer's account of Lucrece (LGW) on Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece," focusing on Chaucer's "particularly sympathetic defence" of Lucrece, despite his overstating of St. Augustine's compassion for her.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion