'To Aleppo gone': From the North Sea to Syria in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale' and Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
- Author / Editor
- Birns, Nicholas
'To Aleppo gone': From the North Sea to Syria in Chaucer's 'Man of Law's Tale' and Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
- Published
- Exemplaria 24 (2012): 364-84.
- Description
- In MLT, Custance's first husband is the "Sowdan of Surrye," and in "Macbeth" the witches plot to scourge a shipmaster who is "to Aleppo gone." That both texts treat Syria and the northern reaches of Great Britain as complementary zones, in space as well as time, permits a plausible linkage between MLT and "Macbeth," and a common awareness of Islamic and Christian otherness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations