Mapping Desire in Chaucer's "To Rosemounde," Shakespeare's "Rape of Lucrece," and Donne's "A Valediction: Of Weeping."

Author / Editor
Beal, Jane.

Title
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 mappaemundiā€ 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