Good and Bad Fridays and May 3 in Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Adams, George R., and Bernard S. Levy.
Good and Bad Fridays and May 3 in Chaucer.
- Published
- English Language Notes 3 (1966): 245-48.
- Description
- Explores the implications of three interrelated allusions in Chaucer's works (TC 2.55ff., KnT 1.1462ff., and NPT 7.3187ff.), observing connections "between Friday, May 3, Venus, the May festival season, and the Invention of the Cross," connections that Chaucer "intended" and that pose tensions between sensual and sacred love.
- Contributor
- Levy, Bernard S.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Knight and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale