Chaucer's 'Broche of Thebes': The Unity of 'The Complaint of Mars' and 'The Complint of Venus'
- Author / Editor
- Merrill, Rodney
Chaucer's 'Broche of Thebes': The Unity of 'The Complaint of Mars' and 'The Complint of Venus'
- Published
- Eric Rothstein, ed. Literary Monographs, Volume 5 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973), pp. 1-62.
- Description
- Challenges traditional perceptions of Mars and Ven as separate poems, arguing that they are better recognized as a single work, "The Broche of Thebes." Traces the history of scribal, editorial, and critical receptions of the complaints, analyzing their formal and thematic variety and reading them as a unified Christian allegory.
- Contributor
- Rothstein, Eric, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Literary Monographs, Volume 5.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars
- Complaint of Venus
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies