Plea and Petition in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Windeatt, Barry.

Title
Plea and Petition in Chaucer

Published
Gerald Morgan, ed. Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (New York: Peter Lang, 2012), pp. 189-216.

Description
Argues that petition is an integral part of the "narrative process and imaginative texture of Chaucer's poems," and that it greatly affects poetic meaning. Discusses Purse and the F and G versions of LGWP, among other poems.

Alternative Title
Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism
Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse
Legend of Good Women