The Classical Tradition in Operation: Chaucer/Virgil, Shakespeare/Plautus, Pope/Horace, Tennyson/Lucretius, Pound/Propertius
- Author / Editor
- Rudd, Niall.
The Classical Tradition in Operation: Chaucer/Virgil, Shakespeare/Plautus, Pope/Horace, Tennyson/Lucretius, Pound/Propertius
- Published
- Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
- Physical Description
- xii, 186 pp.
- Description
- Chaucer drew on two classical sources, Virgil's "Aeneid" and Ovid's "Heroides," to illustrate two themes. In HF, complex characterizations of Venus, Aeneas, and Dido illustrate different meanings of Latin "fame"; in LGW, Dido's queenliness is emphasized to support the theme of female faithfulness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
- House of Fame.
- Legend of Good Women.