Chaucer's Tragic Muse: The Paganization of Christian Tragedy (Studies in Mediaeval Literature)

Dr. Herold, in a searching and emotionally-engaged study, finds the "missing links" in the history of Western tragedy. She traces the deep and multi-layered currents of tragic thought that passed from the Greco-Roman into the medieval Christian world. Dr. Herold shows that without an understanding of the depth and complexities of the Roman tragic vision, the Medieval Christian one is impossible to grasp.