"Lo, pitee renneth soone in gentil herte": Pity as Moral and Sexual Persuasion in Chaucer."

Author / Editor
Duprey, Annalese.

Title
"Lo, pitee renneth soone in gentil herte": Pity as Moral and Sexual Persuasion in Chaucer."

Published
Essays in Medieval Studies 30 (2014): 55–66.

Description
Surveys how pity functions as a lover's emotional ploy that establishes a power relationship in CT. Focuses on MerT and FranT and explores to what extent May and Dorigen create agency for themselves by participating in the exchange of suffering for pity and love.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General
Merchant and His Tale
Franklin and His Tale