Chaucer's May 3 and Its Contexts
- Author / Editor
- Kellogg, Arthur L., and Robert C. Cox.
Chaucer's May 3 and Its Contexts
- Published
- Alfred L. Kellogg. Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1972), pp. 155-98.
- Description
- Discusses Chaucer's three references to May 3 as an ambivalent "destinal date," arging that the date is affiliated with tragic fortune in TC, with humanistic outlook in KnT, and with comic reversal in NPT. This sequence comprises a "kind of limited intellectual autobiography" of Chaucer, perhaps because he associated the date with the signing of the Treaty of Brétigny on this day in 1360 when England lost its military advantage over France.
- Contributor
- Cox, Robert C.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucer, Langland, Arthur: Essays in Middle English Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Knight and His Tale
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- Chaucer's Life