Philomela

Author / Editor
Brown, Sarah Annes.

Title
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.