'Little Troilus': Heroides 5 and Its Ovidian Contexts in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Author / Editor
Fumo, Jamie C.

Title
'Little Troilus': Heroides 5 and Its Ovidian Contexts in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde

Published
Studies in Philology 100: 278-314, 2003.

Description
Fumo analyzes Chaucer's use of Ovid's Heroides 5 (Oenone's letter to Paris) in TC, discussing Chaucer's sustained and allusive use of this text and its "metanarrative function" in the structure of TC.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.