Chaucer's Pyramus and Thisbe

Author / Editor
Spisak, James W.

Title
Chaucer's Pyramus and Thisbe

Published
Chaucer Review 18 (1984): 204-10.

Description
In LGW, Chaucer adheres closely to Ovid in the Pyramus and Thisbe legend. By omissions, by shifts in tone and emphasis, and by the frame of LGW, Chaucer emphasizes seeds of comedy in the original.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.