Pathos in Chaucer's Religious Tales.
- Author/Editor
- Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.
- Title
- Pathos in Chaucer's Religious Tales.
- Published
- Frank, Robert Worth, Jr. "Pathos in Chaucer's Religious Tales." In C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Chaucer's Religious Tales (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1990), pp. 39-52.
- Review
- Contains this about Gower's and Chaucer's versions of Trevet's "Tale of Constance": "Gower took Trevet's account and retold it, with some changes, as an illustration of backbiting (the jealous mothers-in-law), a branch of Envy. Chaucer, like Gower, knew a good story when he saw one, but he also saw in it more deep-reaching possibilities: a dramatic illustration of the instability of human prosperity and happiness" (46). [RFY. Copyright. John Gower Society, eJGN 44.2]
- Date
- 1990
- Gower Subjects
- Confessio Amantis
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