Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- McTaggart, Anne H.
Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
- Published
- DAI A70.12 (2010): n.p.
- Description
- In Chaucer's poetry, guilt is represented as an "ethical ideal," whereas shame is often "portrayed as the psychological reality" that disrupts attempts to "realize the ideal." Throughout his poetry, but especially in CT, Chaucer articulates "the public and private aspects of these emotions, and the "injustice of guiltless shame" is depicted recurrently in the figures of female victims such as Dido, Criseyde, Virginia, and Dorigen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General
- Physician and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Legend of Good Women