The Amorous Scripture : Ovidian Romance and the Rhetoric of Culture
- Author / Editor
- Heyworth, Gregory George.
The Amorous Scripture : Ovidian Romance and the Rhetoric of Culture
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 61: 4375A, 2001.
- Description
- Transmission of ancient Greek and Roman culture through Ovid to later tradition affected romance and shaped attitudes in popular literature. Heyworth discusses works by Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Chaucer (with emphasis on politics in the court of Richard II), Shakespeare, and Milton.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.