Stealing Shives: "Titus Andronicus" as Chaucerian Anti-Romance.

Author / Editor
Schreyer, Kurt.

Title
Stealing Shives: "Titus Andronicus" as Chaucerian Anti-Romance.

Published
Comparative Drama 55 (2021): 185-210.

Description
Identifies narrative, linguistic, and thematic similarities between Chaucer's KnT, MilT, and RvT and Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," and argues that the brutal treatment of Lavinia in Shakespeare's play resonates with the aspects of courtly love depicted and refracted in Chaucer's three tales and in TC, thereby "blurring the lines" between "violent 'Roman'" and "courtly' Romance.'"

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion