A Cautionary Elephant.

Author / Editor
Crane, Susan.

Title
A Cautionary Elephant.

Published
Shakespeare Survey 41 (2014): 29-39.

Description
Argues that two of Chaucer's emphases in SqT modify source material from Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy" and thereby undo the "binary divide between humankind and animal kinds." The "falcon's species vacillation" and Canace's "cross-species kindness" show "that medieval thought about animals is neither uniform nor stable."

Chaucer Subjects
Squire and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations