The Shadow of Virgil and Augustus on Chaucer's House of Fame

Author / Editor
Cañadas, Ivan.

Title
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