Chaucer's 'Aeneid': 'The Naked Text in English'
- Author / Editor
- Desmond, Marilynn.
Chaucer's 'Aeneid': 'The Naked Text in English'
- Published
- Pacific Coast Philology 19 (1984): 62-67.
- Description
- The "Legend of Dido" explicitly evokes its pretexts: the narrator names Virgil and Ovid and summarizes, paraphrases, and purposefully distorts the texts.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.