Mapping Desire in Chaucer's "To Rosemounde," Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece," and Donne's "A Valediction: Of Weeping."
- Author / Editor
- Beal, Jane.
Mapping Desire in Chaucer's "To Rosemounde," Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece," and Donne's "A Valediction: Of Weeping."
- Published
- Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 6.3 (2018): 105-29.
- Description
- Analyzes the "thematic sexualization of the mappaemundi” in Ros, Shakespeare's "Lucrece," and Donne's "Weeping," providing interpretive background for the imagery, explaining the poets' familiarity with T-O maps, and exploring the range of implications in each of the poems, including comparison of Chaucer's treatment with that in Ranulf Higden's "Polychronicon." Three color illustrations.
- Chaucer Subjects
- To Rosemounde
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations