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The Review of English Studies 2005 56(223):1-36; doi:10.1093/res/hgi002
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Chaucer's Adaptation of Boccaccio's Temple Venus in The Parliament of Fowls

Gerald Morgan

Trinity College, Dublin

This article sets out to explain the subtlety and coherence of Chaucer's adaptation of Boccaccio's description of the temple of Venus in the Teseida as a central element in his own representation of love in The Parliament of Fowls. Whether or not Chaucer had access to and read Boccaccio's own glosses to the temple (and there is and can be no decisive evidence to suggest that he had not), it is evident that he is entirely familiar and at ease with the philosophical matter that is contained in the glosses. What makes interpretation problematic, however, is Chaucer's habitual creativity in the use of sources of even such technical difficulty, for he allows himself the freedom to add to, omit, adapt, or simply reproduce the matter of Boccaccio's text as his own poetic purpose requires.


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