Amoryus and Cleopes: John Metham's Metamorphosis of Chaucer and Ovid
- Author / Editor
- Dalrymple, Roger.
Amoryus and Cleopes: John Metham's Metamorphosis of Chaucer and Ovid
- Published
- Phillipa Hardman, ed. The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2002), pp. 149-62.
- Description
- Although based on Ovid's tale of Pyramus and Thisbe, "Amoryus and Cleopes" (1449) was clearly influenced by TC in diction and style. Metham's amelioration of tragedy simplifies Chaucer's complex and ambiguous combination of de casibus tragedy and Ovidian unfortunate love.
- Contributor
- Hardman, Phillipa, ed.
- Alternative Title
- The Matter of Identity in Medieval Romance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.
- Troilus and Criseyde.