Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Ovidian Imitations

Author / Editor
McGregor, James Harvey.

Title
Tragedy in Medieval and Renaissance Ovidian Imitations

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1976): 276A-77A.

Description
Dante and Chaucer in effect parody classical tragedy while adapting their Ovidian imitations to a medieval notion of tragic form. They preserve the notion of suffering into truth, but they focus on the truth to be gained by the reader from the tragic hero's suffering.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.