Translating Two Guillaumes

Author / Editor
Taylor, Paul Beekman.

Title
Translating Two Guillaumes

Published
Paul Beekman Taylor. Chaucer Translator (Lanham, Md., New York, and Oxford: University Press of America, 1998), pp. 155-69.

Description
Compares Antigone's song in TC to Machaut's "Paradis d'Amour," ABC, to Guillaume de Deguileville's "Le pelerinage de la vie humaine." Explores the ironies of Antigone's song, especially those extending from the possibility that the "goodlieste mayde" (2.880) who made the song may be Cassandra. Chaucer's additions to ABC appear later in SNP, PrP, and elsewhere, exemplifying how translation was for Chaucer a spur to creative imagination.

Alternative Title
Chaucer Translator.

Chaucer Subjects
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.
Troilus and Criseyde.
ABC