John Metham's 'Straunge Style': 'Amoryus and Cleopes' as Chaucerian Fragment
- Author / Editor
- Fumo, Jamie C.
John Metham's 'Straunge Style': 'Amoryus and Cleopes' as Chaucerian Fragment
- Published
- ChauR 43 (2008): 215-37.
- Description
- Heretofore noted for its allusions to TC, the romance "Amoryus and Cleopes" also develops many of the themes, motifs, and stylistic traits of Fragment 5 of CT (SqT and FranT), in particular "its portrayal of pagan religion, its treatment of mechanical marvels and magical illusions, its frequently awkward narrative voice, and certain of its techniques of characterization."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale
- Franklin and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations