'Inviolable Voice': Philomela and Procne in Dante's 'Purgatorio' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Author / Editor
Lutton, Jeannette Hume.

Title
'Inviolable Voice': Philomela and Procne in Dante's 'Purgatorio' and Chaucer's 'Troilus and Criseyde'

Published
Donald Palumbo, ed. Spectrum of the Fantastic (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1988), pp. 3-19.

Description
Drawing on the myth of Proche and Philomela, Dante uses birds to symbolize night and day, while Chaucer uses them to symbolize the love of Troilus and Criseyde. Both writers invoke images from the myth to represent love-gone-wrong.

Contributor
Palumbo, Donald,ed.

Alternative Title
Spectrum of the Fantastic.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.