Love and Marriage in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, D[erek], S.
Love and Marriage in Chaucer's Poetry.
- Published
- Modern Language Review 49 (1954): 461-64.
- Description
- Challenges the critical "platitude" that love and marriage are incompatible in Chaucer. Identifies a number of instances in Chaucer's works where love and marriage clearly coincide, and argues that TC is only an "apparent exception" in this regard. Discusses how the plot or "matière" of Chaucer's poem is "illicit" love, but its "sen," or meaning, is a celebration of virtuous, "honorable" love.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Troilus and Criseyde