Love and "Foul Delight": Some Contrasted Attitudes.
- Author / Editor
- Coghill, N. K.
Love and "Foul Delight": Some Contrasted Attitudes.
- Published
- John Lawlor, ed. Patterns of Love and Courtesy: Essays in Memory of C. S. Lewis (London: Edward Arnold, 1966), pp. 141-56.
- Description
- Explores the attitude toward sexual love expressed in Andreas Capellanus's "De Arte Honeste Amandi," contrasting it with the "innocent sincerity in sexual love" that is characteristic of Chaucer's Troilus (and Shakespeare's), also considering the casuistry of love depicted in "The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry."
- Alternative Title
- Patterns of Love and Courtesy
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
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