Chaucer and the Gods

Author / Editor
Apstein, Barbara.

Title
Chaucer and the Gods

Published
DAI 32.06 (1971): 3240A.

Description
Summarizes traditions antecedent to Chaucer's uses of classical deities, and asserts that Chaucer's own uses rejuvenate the tradition, arguing that he is less conventional than usually assumed. Treats sources and analogues, BD, HF, PF, TC, LGWP, KnT, MerT, and several fifteenth-century followers of Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Knight and His Tale
Merchant and His Tale
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion