Astrology and Irony in Chaucer's 'Complaint of Mars'
- Author / Editor
- Laird, Edgar S.
Astrology and Irony in Chaucer's 'Complaint of Mars'
- Published
- Chaucer Review 6.3 (1972): 229-31.
- Description
- The astrological details of "Complaint of Mars" indicate that in the anthropomorphic action of the poem Venus betrays Mars and becomes the mistress of Mercury, "eternally re-enact[ing] the eternal myth."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars