Love and Marriage in the Breton Lays
- Author / Editor
- Archibald, Elizabeth.
Love and Marriage in the Breton Lays
- Published
- Claire Vial, ed. 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays (Etudes Epistémè, no. 25, 2014): n.p. (web publication).
- Description
- Despite the widely accepted claim that French and Middle English Breton lays are concerned primarily with love, argues that the English poems pay relatively little attention to romantic love, and are more concerned with identity, family separation and reunion, loyalty, and justice. Refers to TC and FranT.
- Alternative Title
- 'Gode is the lay, swete is the note': Résonances dans les lais bretons moyen-anglais / Echoes in the Middle English Breton Lays.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
- Franklin and His Tale