Music in Chaucer: His Knowledge and Use of Medieval Ideas About Music (Volumes I and II).
- Author / Editor
- Chamberlain, David Stanley.
Music in Chaucer: His Knowledge and Use of Medieval Ideas About Music (Volumes I and II).
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 27.11 (1967): 3834A.
- Description
- Explores the impact and significance of music in Chaucer's works in light of three traditions: philosophic, Scriptural, and poetic, concluding that "Chaucer's music is far more meaningful and amusing than critics have thought," and the "major imagery" of his work, consistently identifying or vivifying "the moral nature and humor of persons, settings, and themes."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism