Amoryus and Cleopes: John Metham's Metamorphosis of Chaucer and Ovid

Author / Editor
Dalrymple, Roger.

Title
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.