Chaucer's Poetic Treatment of the Figure of Mars

Author / Editor
Storm, Melvin G., Jr.

Title
Chaucer's Poetic Treatment of the Figure of Mars

Published
DAI 34.02 (1973): 742A.

Description
Surveys the interrelated astrological, mythographical, and allegorical traditions of Mars in the Middle Ages, and focuses on the myth of his adultery with Venus and its representations in the plots and allusions of Chaucer's Complaint of Mars, KnT, and TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Complaint of Mars
Knight and His Tale
Troilus and Criseyde