From Chaucer to Lessing: Some Intertextual Relations of the 'Appius and Virginia' Story
- Author / Editor
- Riehle, Wolfgang.
From Chaucer to Lessing: Some Intertextual Relations of the 'Appius and Virginia' Story
- Published
- Beyer, Manfred, ed. Zum Begriff der Imagination in Dichtung und Dichtungstheorie: Festschrift für Rainer Lengeler zum 65. Geburtstag (Trier: WVT, 1998), pp. 186-205.
- Description
- Explores political and ideological similarities between PhyT and Livy's version of the story, and traces these similarities in later English and German versions, especially the Tudor interlude "Apius and Virginia" and G. E. Lessing's bourgeois tragedy "Emilia Galotti" (1722).
- Contributor
- Beyer, Manfred, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Zum Begriff der Imagination in Dichtung und Dichtungstheorie: Festschrift für Rainer Lengeler zum 65.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Physician and His Tale
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion