The Tale of Ceïx and Alceone: Alceone's Agency and Gower's 'Audible Mime'

Author / Editor
Krummel, Miriamne.

Title
The Tale of Ceïx and Alceone: Alceone's Agency and Gower's 'Audible Mime'

Published
Exemplaria 13 : 497-528, 2001.

Description
Contrasts Gower's story of Ceyx and Alcyone with versions by Ovid and Chaucer (in BD). Gower imagined a new dramatic possibility in the character of Alcyone and thereby subverted "monolithic notions of culture and gender" (503).

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.