Classicizing and Medievalizing Chaucer: The Sources for Pyramus' Death-throes in the 'Legend of Good Women'

Author / Editor
Burns, Maggie.

Title
Classicizing and Medievalizing Chaucer: The Sources for Pyramus' Death-throes in the 'Legend of Good Women'

Published
Neophilologus 81 (1997): 637-47.

Description
Argues that Chaucer drew on Ovid's "Metamorphoses" and the "Ovide moralise" rather than on Geoffrey of Monmouth for his description of Pyramus's death in LGW.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.