Guido, the Middle English Troy Books, and Chaucer: The English Connection
- Author / Editor
- Sklar, Elizabeth S.
Guido, the Middle English Troy Books, and Chaucer: The English Connection
- Published
- Neophilologus 76 (1992): 616-28
- Description
- Chaucer's tale of Hypsipyle and Medea (LGW 4) shares verbal features with the "Gest Historyale of the Destruction of Troy" and the "Laud Troy Book." Not derived from one another, they may go back to an earlier Middle English translation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.