Chaucer and Chrétien and Arthurian Romance

Author / Editor
Brewer, D[erek] S.

Title
Chaucer and Chrétien and Arthurian Romance

Published
Beryl Rowland, ed. Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974), pp. 255-59.

Description
Gauges Chaucer's familiarity with the Arthurian romances of Chrétien de Troyes, commenting on the English poet's use of "vavasour" to describe the Franklin and on his allusions to Lancelot, Arthur, and Gawain. Suggests the possibility that Chaucer's lost "Book of the Leoun" may have been a version of Chrétien's "Yvain."

Alternative Title
Chaucer and Middle English Studies in honour of Rossell Hope Robbins.

Chaucer Subjects
Franklin and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Language and Word Studies