The Naked Text: Chaucer's 'Thisbe,' the 'Ovide Moralise,' and the Problem of 'Translatio Studii' in the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Author / Editor
- Delany, Sheila.
The Naked Text: Chaucer's 'Thisbe,' the 'Ovide Moralise,' and the Problem of 'Translatio Studii' in the 'Legend of Good Women'
- Published
- Mediaevalia 13 (1989, for 1987): 275-94.
- Description
- A twelfth-century "lai" and its fourteenth-century moralization, both in the 'Ovide moralise,' provided Chaucer verbal details and a general concept for his treatment of "Thisbe" in LGW. Echoing the fissure between the 'lai' and the moralization, Chaucer sets up an opposition between his comic view of humanity and the God of Love's demand for an idealized representation of women. LGW thus foregrounds the problems of transmitting ancient learning ("translatio studii").
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.