Chaucer's Courtly Love
- Author / Editor
- Reiss, Edmund.
Chaucer's Courtly Love
- Published
- Larry D. Benson, ed. The Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature. Harvard English Studies, no. 5 (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 95-111.
- Description
- Gauges Chaucer's "view and use of love," concentrating on BD, TC, and KnT as his only narratives that take courtly love seriously, both as a theme and a plot device. Even in these cases, courtly love is presented pejoratively--both foolish and destructive.
- Alternative Title
- Learned and the Lewed: Studies in Chaucer and Medieval Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale