The Shadow of Virgil and Augustus on Chaucer's House of Fame
- Author / Editor
- CanĚadas, Ivan.
The Shadow of Virgil and Augustus on Chaucer's House of Fame
- Published
- Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 18.1 (2010): 57-79.
- Description
- Chaucer's depiction of the statues of Virgil and Ovid in HF comments ironically on Virgil's political support of Augustus Caesar and on Augustan notions of authority--evidence of Chaucer's skeptical attitude toward literary and political authority.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame
- Sources Analogues, and Literary Relations