Sir Thopas's Mourning Maidens.
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Sir Thopas's Mourning Maidens.
- Published
- Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 42-55.
- Description
- Examines similarities between the maidens who yearn for the love of Thopas--despite his chastity (Th 7.742-45)--and lovesick women “who offer themselves” in analogous romances, particularly "Ipomadon" and the romances cited in Th 7.897-900. Suggests that the motif is one aspect of Th as parody and an element in the "larger debate . . . about the role and nature of women" in CT.
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Tale of Sir Thopas
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations