Virgile et Ovide métamorphosés: Didon sanctifiée par Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Dor, Juliette.
Virgile et Ovide métamorphosés: Didon sanctifiée par Chaucer
- Published
- Adrian Papahagi, ed. Métamorphoses (Paris: Association des Médiviéstes Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur, 2003), pp. 197-218.
- Description
- In LGW, Chaucer questions his two major sources--Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Heroides--to express the naked text of the myth and, simultaneously, to assert his own authority. Aeneas is selfish and irresponsible in LGW (Chaucer's third treatment after BD and HF); Dido is a saint of love who combines the attributes of the heroine of a medieval romance with those of a martyr.
- Alternative Title
- Métamorphoses.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.