Chaucer's 'Aeneid': 'The Naked Text in English'

Author / Editor
Desmond, Marilynn.

Title
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.