Diverse Pageants: Normative Arrays of Sexuality.

Author / Editor
Cooper, Helen.

Title
Diverse Pageants: Normative Arrays of Sexuality.

Published
Rachel Stenner, Tamsin Badcoe, and Gareth Griffith, eds. Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019), pp. 60-74.

Description
Identifies parallels between Chaucer's and Spenser's depictions of ranges and varieties of love-relationships in PF; TC; CT; and "The Faerie Queene," books III–IV. Introduced via allusion to FranT, Britomart is central to Spenser's collection of "diverse pageants" of love, here linked to the "generative sexuality" of Boethian, neoplatonic love, and recurrently resonant with Chaucer's similar "normative array" of female-focused love narratives, many with specific echoes.

Alternative Title
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Parliament of Fowls Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General
Franklin and His Tale