Astrology and Irony in Chaucer's 'Complaint of Mars'

Author / Editor
Laird, Edgar S.

Title
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