Anti-Courtly Elements in Chaucer's "Complaint of Mars."
- Author / Editor
- Hultin, Neil C.
Anti-Courtly Elements in Chaucer's "Complaint of Mars."
- Published
- Annuale Mediaevale 9 (1968): 58-75.
- Description
- Considers the courtly conventions that are used in Mars, and argues that they are deployed ironically and comically to "show the moral deficiencies" of the courtly "system" and lead the reader to judge it accordingly. Considers the allusive implications of the Brooch of Thebes, fisher/hook imagery, and Mars's subordination to Venus.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Complaint of Mars