The Animals of the Hunt and the Limits of Chaucer's Sympathies

Author / Editor
Scott-Macnab, David.

Title
The Animals of the Hunt and the Limits of Chaucer's Sympathies

Published
SAC 34 (2012): 331-37.

Description
Tallies Chaucer's depictions of hunting in BD, LGW, and FranT, and argues that these, in contrast with other works in Middle English, show a "marked lack of sympathy for animals as quarries."

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess
Legend of Good Women
Franklin and His Tale