'I Wol Now Singen, Yif I Kan': The 'Aeneid' in Medieval French and English Narrative

Author / Editor
Desmond, Marilynn Robin.

Title
'I Wol Now Singen, Yif I Kan': The 'Aeneid' in Medieval French and English Narrative

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 46 (1986): 2687A-2688A.

Description
Studies medieval assumptions about and deformations of Virgil's "Aeneid." Chapter 3 presents the "self-conscious ironic" version of the Dido story in LGW; chapter 4, Chaucer's assumptions about the "Aeneid" in HF. Notes on Chretien, Caxton, Douglas.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.