Chaucer's Phaethon: 'the sonnes sone, the rede,' 'House of Fame,' II, 941
- Author / Editor
- Merlo, Carolyn.
Chaucer's Phaethon: 'the sonnes sone, the rede,' 'House of Fame,' II, 941
- Published
- English Language Notes 17 (1979): 88-90.
- Description
- Though "the rede" may be taken as referring to either Phaethon or his father Phoebus, Phaethon is in Ovid the red-haired boy burning in the sky, who falls to earth as a human torch;"rede Phaethon" shows fidelity to Chaucer's source and intensifies Chaucer's description of the catastrophe.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.