Philomela
- Author / Editor
- Brown, Sarah Annes.
Philomela
- Published
- Translation and Literature 13 (2004): 194-206
- Description
- Surveys versions and adaptations of the Philomela-Procne-Tereus story from Euripides through Timberlake Wertenbaker's "Love of the Nightingale" (1988), observing overt and submerged motifs of incest and lesbianism. In LGW, the motifs are underscored by a concern with speech and speechlessness.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.