Chaucer and Ovid: A Question of Authority
- Author / Editor
- Cooper, Helen.
Chaucer and Ovid: A Question of Authority
- Published
- Charles Martindale, ed. Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), pp. 71-81.
- Description
- Discusses Chaucer's borrowings from Ovid in HF, BD, WBT, and ManT. Although to the fourteenth century the "Metamorphoses" was a chief among works demystified or allegorized to produce Christian doctrine, Chaucer rejects this tradition and emphasizes the fable. There is little evidence that he used the "Ovide moralise"; if he did, it was mediated through Machaut.
- He borrowed Ovid's tales, especially those of women in distress, but avoided their afterlife, concentrating on the present; his emphasis is humanist.
- Contributor
- Martindale, Charles,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Ovid Renewed: Ovidian Influences on Literature and Art from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.