The Horse and Rider Figure in Chaucer's Works.

Author / Editor
Rowland, Beryl.

Title
The Horse and Rider Figure in Chaucer's Works.

Published
University of Toronto Quarterly 35 (1966): 246-59.

Description
Comments on the prevalence of horse-and-rider imagery in Western culture, and explores Chaucer's uses of the imagery in BD (the hunt), TC (Bayard and Troilus's ride-bys), Wife of Bath (spurs, bridles, and other sexualized images), and various other contexts. Chaucer often "deals with the tension inherent in the figure" of the horse and rider and related imagery.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification
Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde
Wife of Bath and Her Tale